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weorold-mann

  • noun [ masculine ]
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weorold-mann, es; m.
in a general sense, a man upon earth, a
man
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  • Orsorg líf lǽdaþ woruldmen wíse (cf. se wísa mon,

      Bt. 12; Fox 36, 24), Met. 7, 41.

  • Án ðara tungla woruldmen hátaþ (cf. wé hátaþ,

      Bt. 39, 3; Fox 214, 19) wǽnes þísla, 28, 10.

  • Weoruldmen (cf. folc,

      Bt. 39, 3; Fox 216, 2) wénaþ, 28, 72.

  • Hú yfele mé dóþ manege woruldmenn . . . ic eom getogen tó fremdum þeáwum ðurh ða ungefyldan gítsunge woruldmonna (

    inexpleta hominum cupiditas

    ),
      Bt. 7, 3; Fox 20, 19-26.

  • Hwá is weoruldmonna ðæt ne wafige (cf. hwá ne wundraþ. Bt. 39,

      3; Fox 214, 25), Met. 28, 31.

  • Woruldmonna seó unclǽne gecynd,

      Exon. Th. 63, 8 ; Cri. 1016.

  • Ic wát ðætte wile woruldmen tweógan geond foldan sceát búton feá áne (cf. went nú ful neáh eall moncyn on tweónunga,

      Bt. 4; Fox 8, 18), Met. 4, 52.
a man employed, or
interested, in worldly affairs; a man of the world
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  • Se Hǽlend befrán hú woruldmenn be him cwyddedon . . . Drihten ðá befrán : ' Hwæt secge gé ðæt ic sý ? swylce hé swá cwǽde : " Nú woruldmenn ðus dwollíce mé oncnáwaþ, gé ðe godas sind, hú oncnáwe gé mé, "' Homl. Th. i. 366, 5-14.

  • Hé hine wið eallum ðǽm wǽpnum geheóld, ða ðe woruldmen fremmaþ on menniscum ðingum,

      Blickl. Homl. 213, 6.

  • Ðonne hé from woruldmonnum (world-,

      Cott. MSS.)
    bið ongiten suelce hé sié ælðiédig on ðiosum middangearde, Past. 19 ; Swt. 141, 18.

  • Ða hǽþenan féngon tó wurðienne mistlíce entas and strece woruldmen, ðe mihtige wurdan on woruldafelum, Wulfst. 105, 34. II a.

    a man engaged in secular, as opposed to ecclesiastical, affairs, a layman :-- Nalæs ðæt án ðæt ðás ðing dyden weoruldmen (saeculares viri ),

    ac eác swylce ðæt Drihtnes eówde,
      Bd. 1, 14; S. 482, 25.

  • Ða láfe ðæs gereordes, ðæt sind ða deópnyssa ðære láre ðe woroldmen understandan ne magon, ða sceolon ða láreówas gegaderian,

      Homl. Th. i. 190, 6.

  • Munuclíf wǽron gehealdene, and ða woruldmenn wǽron wære wið heora fýnd,

      Homl. Skt. i. 13, 150: 20, 120.

  • Woruldmanna gebeórscypas

    secularium conuiuia,

    Anglia xiii.
      375, 133.
Etymology
[For nane weorldmonne for no man on earth, Laym. 28131. þe wisdom of þeos wise worldmen sapientia sapientium, Kath. 486. O. H. Ger. weralt-mann a man.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “weorold-mann.” 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/35248.

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