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on-weald

  • noun [ masculine ]
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on-weald, es; m.
Power
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  • Sý him ár and onwald

    to him be honour and power,

      Exon. Th. 241, 28; Ph. 663.
  • Hié hiere onwaldes hié (

    Rome

    ) beniman woldon; and heó hwæðere onwealg on hiere onwalde æfter þurhwunade,
      Ors. 2, 1; Swt. 62, 22-24.
  • Se geeode ðæt eálond and Rómána onwealde underþeódde,

      Bd. 1, 3; S. 475, 18.
  • Ne lǽt áwyrgde ofer ús onwald ágan,

      Exon. Th. 10, 28; Cri. 159.
  • Ða kyningas ðe ðone onwald hæfdon ðæs folces ... hié heora onweald gehióldon,

      Past. pref.; Swt. 3, 5-7.
  • Ðú áhtest alra onwald (

    power over all

    ),
      Cd. Th. 268, 24; Sat. 60.
  • Ðæt gé mín onweald ágan mósten,

      Exon. Th. 131, 9; Gú. 453.
  • Ús áléfan écne onwald,

      Cd. Th. 272, 11; Sat. 118.
  • Wé hine oferswýðdon and ús in onweald geslógon eal his londríce

    regi superato acceptaque in conditiones omni ejus regione,

      Nar. 3, 22.
  • Wé ealle his þeóde on onwald onféngon,

      4, 6.
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v. an-, and-weald, on-wealda.
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v.  on-wald weald.
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