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stæl-wirðe

  • adjective
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stæl-wirðe, adj.
Able to stand a person in good stead (v. stæl, II), serviceable
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  • Se ðe geornlíce conn ongietan ðæt hé gadrige ðæt him stælwierðe sié

    qui sollicite noverit sumere, quod adjuvat,

      Past. 17, 5; Swt. 115, 3.

  • Ða scipu ðe stælwyrðe wǽron binnan Lundenbyrig gebrohton

    the ships that could be of service they brought into London,

      Chr. 896; Erl. 94, 19.

  • Hé gyfþ gooda gifa on ðissa wurlda; þeáh hí éca ne sién, hí beóþ þeáh stælwyrða ða hwíle ðe wé on ðisse wurlde beóþ, Shrn. 192, 6. [In later English the word seems used more in the sense of the modern

    stalwart

    = strong :-- Ic em hal and fere and strong and stelewurðe, ȝet ic mei longe libben,
      O. E. Homl. i. 25, 12.

  • Þeo Þat beoð stalewurðe and warpeð mid strencðe ut of hare heorte hare unwreste wil,

      Jul. 44, 7.

  • Þeo ꝥ stalewurðe beoð ant starke to ȝein me,

      Marh. 15, 32.

  • Þou hart on staleworþe (hende, 1st MS.) gome,

      Laym. 3812.

  • Gurguont, stalworþe mon and hardy,

      R. Glouc. 39, 4.

  • A man þat es yhung and light, Be he never swa stalworth and wyght,

      Pr. C. 689.

  • Cf. stanndenn stallwurrþlig ȝæn þe deofless wille,

      Orm. 1194.

  • Louerd mi stalwurnesse (stalworthhede, other MSS.)

    Domine, virtus mea,

      Ps. 17, 2.
    ] Cf. nyt-wirðe.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “stæl-wirðe.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/28652.

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