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refuge, safety, asylum
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  • Sý þú mé on húse generes

    esto mihi in domum refugii,

      Ps. L. 30, 3.

  • Hý sceoldon fægnian, þonne hý on genere wǽron,

      Ps. Th. 39, arg.
    Betere wé faran ús intó þám niycclan scræfe . . . and ðǽr wé magon on genere wunian, Hml. S. 23, 204.
  • Gif. . . hí manna ǽnig on genere heólde, 50.
  • Gehwá sóhte gener (or
) ðǽr hé ǽnig findan mihte, 231.
a place of safety, a refuge, an asylum
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  • Hiera wíf ácsedon . . . hwider hié fleón woldon ; þæt hié óðer gener næfden, búton hié on heora wífa hrif gewiton

    uxores quaerentes num in uteros uxorum vellent refugere,

      Ors. l, 12 ; S. 54, 4.

  • Hé his wunda gewráð, and wolde him sum gener sécan, Hml. Th. ii. 356, 28. (2 a) used of a person :-- Geworden is Drihten gener (

    re-fugium)

    ðearfena,
      Ps. Spl. 9, 9.

  • Gener ł frófor mín,

      58, 19.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-ner.” 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/49035.

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