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cyne-scipe

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Dele 'honour,' and add: royal dignity
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  • Feala óðra cásera ríxodon on heora cynescipes wuldre and on heora anwealdes myrhþe, Hml S. 23, 350.

  • Hí hine on cwearterne bescufon tó sceame his kynescipe,

      18, 440.

  • For his micclan cynescipe,

      Hml. A. 101, 300.

  • Heó hiræ cinehláford bitt for cynescypæ þæt heó móte beón hyre cwydes wyrðe,

      Cht. Th. 552, 30.

  • Ic (Cnut) beóde ꝥ hý fylstan þám biscopum tó Godes gerihtum and tó mínum kynescype . . . Gif hwá swá dyrstig sý . . . ꝥ ongeán Godes lage gá and ongeán mínne cynescype, Cht. E. 230, 16-21. ¶ as a form of address,

    majesty, royal highness

    :-- Stópon in tó ðám cásere ðá yldestan . . . and þus sprǽcon: 'Ealra manna hláford, wé biddað þínne cynescipe ꝥ þú ne beó dreórig . . . Gyf ðín cynescipe swá cwyð, hit geworden bið sóna ꝥ . . .,
      Hml. S. 23, 281-292.
  • Ic gréte þé, leóf, and ic bidde þínne þrymfullan cynescype, 794.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cyne-scipe.” 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/42423.

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