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ge-camp

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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ge-camp, n. (not m.).
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  • Gecampe

    bello,

      Wülck. Gl. 248, 13.
warfare, battle.
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  • Cempa þe on nánum gecampe náht ðegenlices ne gefremode,

      Hml. Th. i. 342, 5.

  • Iulianus wolde neádian preóstas tó woruldlicum gecampe,

      Hml. S. 25, 834.
fig.
spiritual warfare
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  • Hí sceolon mid sige þæs gástlican gecampes tó him eft gecyrran þe hí tó þám gefeohte ásende,

      Hml. Th. ii. 402, 14.

  • Gecampes

    (cenobialis) militie,

      An. Ox. 4169.

  • Godes fyhtling (

    St. Paul) sóhte þone feld þæs gecampes (certaminis campum ),

      Gr. D. 110, 15.

  • Muneca cyn þe ... under abbodes tǽcinge on gecampe wuniaþ (

    militans sub abbate

    ),
      R. Ben. 9, 4.

  • Wé magon ðá feóndlican leahtras mid gecampe oferwinnan, gif wé cénlíce feohtað,

      Hml. S. 16, 379.
a struggle, conflict, contest,
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  • Ús nis nán gecamp ongeán flǽsc and blód

    non est nobis colluctatio adversus carnem et sanguinem

    (Eph.
      6, 11), Hml. Th. ii. 218, 4.

  • Pleglices gecampes

    Olimphiaci agonis.

      An. Ox, 2, 5.

  • Ǽlc ðǽra þe on gecampe winð (

    in agone contendit,

    I
      Cor. 9, 25),
    forhæfð hine sylfne fram eallum þingum, Hml. Th. ii. 86, 22.
non-physical
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  • Hú micel wǽre ꝥ gecamp (

    certamen

    ) þe wann on þæs rihtwísan mannes breóstum,
      Gr. D. 18, 4.

  • Hé ábád mid his gebróðrum tihtende hí tó ðám tówerdan gecampe (

    the coming persecution

    ),
      Hml. S. 4, 103.

  • Gyt mid gástlicum gecampe winnað ongeán ðone drý,

      Hml. Th. i. 374, 22.

  • God sette gecamp geleáffullum sáwlum,

      64, 19.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-camp.” 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/47423.

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