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  • Geswǽse

    blandum,

      Wülck. Gl. 257, 8.
of persons,
kind, charitable, loving
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  • Hé

    wæs swíðe geswǽs eallum swinc-endum, and on mislicum yrmdum mannum geheólp (cf. hé swincendum fylste,
      Hml. S. 31, 53), Hml. Th. ii. 500, 16.

  • God cymð ungesewenlice tó geswǽsre heortan þe gehýrsum bið his hǽsum (cf. Lufa ðínne Drihten . . . Lufa ðínne néxtan,

      314, 6-9) mid weorce, 316, 4.
of things,
kind, pleasant, alluring, agreeable, persuasive
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  • Wolde se heofenlica lǽce mid geswǽsum bigspelle þæt geswell heora heortan gelácnian, hml. Th. i. 338, 22.
  • Se biscop ðá ungeðwǽran preóstas on sibbe gebróhte mid geswǽsre láre, ii. 516, 16.

  • Ne hlyste gé heora geswǽsan lyffetunge,

      404, 29.

  • Eádmódnysse cýðan mid geswǽsre ðénunge,

      242, 33. þá
    gewylnunga þisse worulde synt swíðe swicole, þeáh þe hí geswǽse beón, Hml. S. 2, 165.

  • Ðæt hé wiðsóce þám geswǽsum lustum,

      5, 315: 35, 132 : Hml. A. 15, 59.

  • Hæfde Ióhannes hire

    (Mary)

    gýmene mid geswǽsum ðénungum,
      Hml. Th. ii. 256, 30.

  • Geswǽsum gemetum

    blandis modis,

      Scint. 61, 10.
  • Hé mid geswǽsum wordum ólehte þám mǽdene. Hml. S. 7, 83.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-swǽs.” 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/49874.

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