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dǽd-béta
/dbe:ta /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
Gender: Masculine
dǽd-béta
, an; m. A deed amender, penitent; maleficii compensator :-- Se dǽdbéta the penitent, L. M. I. P. 3; Th. ii. 266, 16.
Linked entries (variants, parts of a paradigm or derived forms):
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. Add :-- Se dǽdbéta (poenitens) æfter his dǽdbóte hreównysse ne sceal gecyrran tó þysse worulde, Ll. Th. ii. 170, 13, 11, 15, 20. 'Wylt þú búgan eft tó Chríste?' Se wyþersaca cwæð: 'Ic wylle georne' . . . Cwæð se dǽdbéta: 'Þá deóflu cumað tó mé,' Hml. S. 3, 423. Sind mænige rihtwíse unscyldige wið heáfodleahtras, and habbað hwæðere stíðe drohtnunge . . . þám ne mæg nán dǽdbéta beón geefenlǽht, for ðan ðe hí sind rihtwíse and behreówsigende, Hml. Th. i. 342, 12. Drihten cwæð þæt micel blis wǽre on heofenum be ánum dǽdbétan, 350, 8.
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