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fǽmne
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fǽmne
. Add :-- Ungehǽmed fǽmne innupta, i. uirgo, An. Ox. 1174. Scylcen, fǽmne, meówle iuuencula, i. uirguncula, 2112. Ceorlstrang fǽmne virago, Wrt. Voc. i. 17, 18. Þá cwæð Adam: 'Beó hire nama Uirago, þæt is fǽmne, for ðan ðe heó is of hire were genumen,' Hml. Th. i. 14, 24. Fram wǽpenleásre fémnan e virgine inermi, Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 39. ¶ referring to the Virgin Mary :-- Heó is seó clǽneste fǽmne, and heó wæs fǽmne ǽr hire beorþre and heó wunaþ fǽmne æfter hire beorþre, Bl. H. 155, 33. Þú wǽre symle fǽmne oncnáwen . . . þone Hǽlend þú fémne (fǽmne, v. l.) geeácnodest, eác swilce fǽmne ácendest, Hml. S. 23 b, 436-446. Ðá ealra fǽmnena cwén cende þone Hǽlend . . . ðá hé líchaman onféng. Æt Sc̃a Marian, þǽre unwemman fǽmnan, Wlfst. 251, 8-13. v. nunn-fǽmne.
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FǼMNE
, fémne, an; f. [fēmĭna a woman] A virgin, damsel, maid, woman; virgo, puella, fēmĭna :-- Wæs ðæs ylcan mynstres abbudisse on ða tíd seó cynellíce fǽmne Ælflǽd præĕrat quĭdem tunc eidem monastērio rēgia virgo Ælbflæd, Bd. 4, 26; S. 603, 3, 6: 4, 8; S. 575, 34: Gen. 2, 23: Mt. Bos. 1, 23. Seó fǽmne wæs Sarra háten the damsel was called Sarah, Cd. 83; Th. 103, 23; Gen. 1722: 101; Th. 134, 17; Gen. 2226. Sceal fémne hire freónd geséccan the damsel shall seek her lover, Menol. Fox 548; Gn. C. 44.
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