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or-feorm

  • adjective
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or-feorm, adj.
Unprovided, destitute, worthless
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  • Ðæt biþ feóndes bearn, hafaþ grundfúsne gǽst Gode orfeormne (of feormne, MS.) wuldor-cyninge (

    a godless spirit

    ),
      Exon. Th. 316, 16; Mód. 49.
  • Ða (

    the heathen gods

    ) sind geásne góda gehwylces, idle, orfeorme, unbiþyrfe,
      255, 20; Jul. 217.
  • Hwider hweorfaþ wé hláfordleáse, góde orfeorme, synnum wunde (cf. gif wé gewítaþ fram ðé, ðonne beó wé fremde from eallum ðǽm gódum ðe ðú ús gegearwodest,

      Blickl. Homl. 233, 31-33), Andr. Kmbl. 812; An. 406.
  • Gāstæs gōde orfeorme, wuldre bescyrede, 3233 ; An. 1619: Judth. Thw. 25, 21 ; Jud. 271.
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  • or-feorm, adj.