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heán

  • adjective
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heán, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§426; §530;
Low, mean, abject, poor, humbled, humble
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  • Hiora heorte wæs heán on gewinnum

    humiliatum est in laboribus cor eorum,

      Ps. Th. 106, 11.
  • Ic heán gewearþ hé mé hraðe lýsde

    humiliatus sum et liberavit me,

      114, 6.
  • Nánig eft síðade heán hyhta leás

    none returned cast down and hopeless,

      Exon. 46 a; Th. 157, 25; Gú. 897.
  • Ðá ðú heán and earm ǽrest cwóme

    when abject and poor thou first didst come,

    39 a;
      Th. 129, 23; Gú. 425.
  • Démaþ ðam rícan swá ðam heánan and ðam litlan swá ðam miclan

    judge the high as the low, and the little as the great,

      Deut. 1, 17: Homl. Th. i. 64, 30.
  • Hú uncúþ biþ ǽghwylcum ánum men his lífes tíd ǽghweðer ge rícum ge heánum ge geongum ge ealdum

    how unknown to every single man is the period of his life, both to the rich man and to the poor, to the young and to the old,

      Blickl. Homl. 125, 8.
  • Habbaþ mé gehnǽged heánne tó eorþan

    humiliavit in terra vitam meam,

      Ps. Th. 142, 3.
  • Ǽgðer ge welige ge heáne

    simul in unum dives et pauper,

      48, 2.
  • Swá ríce swá heáne

    vel divites vel pauperes,

      Bd. 3, 5; S. 526, 30.
  • Se scearpa deáþ ðe ne forlét ne ríce menn ne heáne se hine genam

    stern death who spares neither rich men nor poor, that seized him,

      Chr. 1086; Erl. 220, 35.
  • Hí hí sylfe léton ǽgðer ge for heáne ge for unwrǽste

    ultima propemodum desperatione tabuerunt,

      Ors. 3, 1; Swt. 98, 22.
  • Hí taliaþ ðé wyrsan for heánan gebyrdan ða ðe heora yldran on worolde ne wurdan welige

    they account the worse, for their humble birth, those whose forefathers were not rich in a worldly point of view,

      L. Eth. vii. 21; Th. i. 334, 2.
  • Ne wandige hé ná for rícum ne for heánum

    non vereri potentes neque humiles,

      L. Ecg. P. i. 1; Th. ii. 172, 3.
  • Heánra burhwered vulgus vel

    plebs,

      Ælfc. Gl. 8; Som. 56, 82; Wrt. Voc. 18, 37.
  • Heánra man vel ceorlíc ǽhta

    peculium,

      13; Som. 57, 122; Wrt. Voc. 22, 59.
  • Se heánra hád

    the weaker sex,

      Exon. 9 a; Th. 7, 10; Cri. 99.
  • Ne se heárra derige ðam heánran

    nor let the higher injure the lower,

      L. I. P. 7; Th. ii. 314, 1.
  • Ðeáh hit se læsta wǽre and se heánosta

    though it were the least and the lowest,

      Blickl. Homl. 169, 23.
Etymology
[Laym. hæne, hene: Goth. hauns: O. H. Ger. hón humilis, infamis.]
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v.  ge-hén ge-heán ge-híne hýn hýnan hýn-ness hýnþ hígan.
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