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on-bǽru

  • noun [ feminine ]
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on-bǽru, f. [on = un?]
Wrong behaviour, vexation, anger
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  • Hé ðæs onbǽru habban ne meahte ac hé háte lét teáras geótan

    he could not be vexed at it (Guthlac's death), but he shed hot tears,

      Exon. Th. 165, 12; Gú. 1827.
Etymology
[Cf. (?) O. H. Ger. un-gipárida fastidium, ira, rabies.]
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  • on-bǽru, n.