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self-sceaft

  • noun [ masculine ]
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self-sceaft, es; m.
Self-shaping, spontaneous generation, applied to Adam, who had not father and mother
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  • Adam maþelode ðǽr hé on eorþan stód selfsceafte guma

    a man by spontaneous generation.

      Cd. Th. 33, 20; Gen. 523.
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  • self-sceaft, n.