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slǽwþ

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
slǽwþ, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§613;
Sloth, laziness, inertness, torpor; accidia, inertia, pigredo, torpor
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  • Se sixta leahter is

    accidia

    geháten, ðæt is ásolcennyss oððe slǽwþ on
      Englisc, Homl. Skt. i. 16, 296.
  • Sió slǽwþ giétt slǽp on ðone monnan

    pigredo immittit soporem.

      Past. 39, 1 ; Swt. 283, 6.
  • Slǽwþ

    torpor,

      Hymn. Surt. 26, 28.
  • Sléuþ

    pigredo,

      Kent. Gl. 694.
  • On ðæm sceáte his slǽwþe

    in sudario lenti torporis,

      Past. 9; Swt. 59, 16.
  • From ðære slǽwþe his synna

    a peccati torpore,

      28, 4; Swt. 193, 23.
  • Slǽwþe

    inertia.

      Engl. Stud. ix. 40, col. 1.
  • Hí for heora slǽwþe and for gimeléste forléton unwriten ðara monna dǽda,

      Bt. 18, 3 ; Fox 64, 33.
  • Ic wát ðæt swongornes hí mid slǽwþe ofercymþ,

      36, 6; Fox 180, 34.
  • Gyf hé for slǽwþe his hláfordes forgýmþ, lie biþ his ágnum wel geborgen,

      L. R. S. 20 ; Th. i. 440, 16.
  • Slǽwþum

    torporibus,

      Hymn. Surt. 4, 10.
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v. un-slǽwþ.
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