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ge-dwola, one who errs.
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one who acts wrongly, a wicked person
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  • 'Wá dám ðe talað yfel tó góde, and gód tó yfele . . . Swilc gerihtwísiað þone árleásan for sceattum'. . . Eft cwæð Salomon be swilcum gedwolum : 'Hí

    (impii)

    blissiað on yfelnesse, '
      Hml. Th. ii. 322 20,
one who errs from imperfect knowledge
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  • Geleáfan ungelǽredes folces and gedwolena

    fidem indocti vulgi ac neofitorum,

    ngl. xiii.
      421, 803.
one who errs in matters of doctrine, a heretic
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  • Arrianus wæs se mǽsta gedwola þe of mancynne cóme,

      Ll. Th. ii. 374, I: Hml. A. 59, 196.

  • Olimpius wæs eác gedwola on úres Drihtnes geleáfan

    (in respect to his belief in our Lord),

    204.

  • Sé þe him

    (the apostles and wise teachers)

    wiðcwyð and heora gesetnessum, hé byð gedwola,
      22, 199 : Hml. S. l, 19.

  • Valens wæs on Críste gefullod, ac hé ne cúþe his geleáfan, ac folgode gedwylde . . . Se gedwola,

      3, 299.
  • Nestorum þone gedwolan þe cwæð ꝥ on Críste wǽron twégen hádas, 1.
  • Th. ii. 374, 18.

  • Þ hálige goðspell hæfð oferswíðod swylcera gewolena andgit,

      Hml. S. 1, 8.
one who wanders in his mind, a frantic person
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  • Ged(w)olan

    lymphaticus,

      An. Ox. ii. 176.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dwola.” 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/47739.

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