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in agreement.
of living creatures or things personified,
of many,
in agreement, at peace with one another
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  • Ealle crístene men sceoldon beón swá geþwǽre swilce hit án man wǽre,

      Hml. Th. i. 272, 24.
  • Þǽr beóð geþwǽre sáwul and líchama, þe nú on ðisum lífe him betweónan winnað, 11.

  • Manega gesceafta beóþ swá geþwǽra ꝥte nó ꝥ án ꝥ hí magon geféran beón, ac heora furþum nán búton óþrum beón ne mæg,

      Bt. 21; F. 74, 17.

  • Þú hæfst æalle gesceapene gesóme and tó þám geþwǽre þǽt heora nán ne mæg óðerne mid ælle fordón

    dissonantia usque in extremum nulla est,

      Solil. H. 5, 14.

  • Habbað æðele tungol emne gedǽled dæg and nihte, sunne and móna swíðe geþwǽre, Met. 29, 37. (a α)

    in agreement with (dat. )

    :-- Hié wilniað ðæt wé him geðwǽre sién,
      Past. 255, 1.
of a company
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  • Be gehwǽre bróðrǽddene

    de concordi sodalitate (apium ),

      An. Ox. 231.
of a single person
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  • For ðám singalan ege ne mæg hé nó weorþan geþwǽre on him selfum,

      Bt. 39, 12; F. 232, 3.
of things
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  • Heó hæfð twá ðing, clǽnnysse and módignysse, þe ne magon beón geþwǽre on háligre þeáwfæstnysse,

      Hml. A. 40, 404.
peaceable, peaceably disposed, gentle.
of living things
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  • Oft wíf hine (

    a dog

    ) wríð; hé him wel héreð, þeówað him geþwǽre,
      Rä. 51, 6.

  • Ðætte on óðre wísan sine tó manianne ðá geðwǽran (

    pacati;

    cf. gesibsuman, 6),
      Past. 345, 4.

  • Hié wǽron swá geþwǽre and swá gesibsume ꝥ hié ealle forgeáfon þǽm cásere þá fǽhðe þe his mæg hæfde wið hié ǽr geworht,

      Ors. 6, 4; S. 258, 26.
of things,
at peace, at rest
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  • Streámas eft stille weorðað, ýða geþwǽre,

      Rä. 3, 15.
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v. un-geþwǽre.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-þwǽre.” 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/50175.

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