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un-sýfre

  • adjective
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Grammar
un-sýfre, adj.
Impure, unclean, foul (physically or morally),
physical
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  • Gif hió swíþor unsýfre weorpe (weorþe?), clǽnsa mid hunige,

    • Lchdm. ii. 210, 2.
  • Wíc unsýfre (

    a prison

    ),
    • Andr. Kmbl. 2622
    • ;
    • An. 1312.
  • Unsýfra

    olidarum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 15.
moral
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  • Forhwan ðú ðæt selegescot, ðæt ic mé on ðé gehálgode, þurh firenlustas fúle synne unsýfre ( or adv.?

    Cf. O. H. Ger. un-súbro sordide
    ) besmite,

    • Exon. Th. 90, 34
    • ;
    • Cri. 1484.
  • Synfulra weorud, swá fúle swá gǽt, unsýfre folc,

    • Exon. Th. 75, 35
    • ;
    • Cri. 1232.
  • Ǽr se unsýfra ( Holofernes ) womfull onwóce,

    • Judth. Thw. 22, 24
    • ;
    • Jud. 76.
  • Be ðam sacerde ðe hine sylfne besmít þurh unsýfre sprǽce (

    impuro sermone

    ),
    • L. Ecg. C. 5, tit.
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 128, 14.
  • Þurh unsýfre sprǽce

    per turpiloquium,

    • 5
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 138, 4.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. un-súbar, -súbiri fedus, immundus, sordidus.
]
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v.  sýfre.
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