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gíme-leás

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gíme-leás, adj.
that does not take care or
trouble, careless, negligent
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  • Wé wénað ꝥ mænige gímeleúse menn ne réccean hú heora yrfe fare,

      Ll. Th. i. 238, 5.

  • Útádrǽfdum gýmeleásra preósta fýlþum ejectis negle-gentium clericorum spurcitiis, Angl. xiii. 366, 16. I a. negligent in spiritual matters, in discharge of duty, &c. — Gif hwylc bróðor beó gemét swá gýmeleás (-lés, v. l., gímeleás

    neglegens

    ,
      R. Ben. I. 83, 16),
    þæt hé nelle hálige béc smeágan, R. Ben. 75, 3.

  • Críst sylfa cwæþ ꝥ hé nelle gehýran þæs gímeleásan mannes gebedrǽdene,

      Bl. H. 57, 4.

  • Ðǽm unbealdum is tó cýðanne hú giémeleáse hié bióð ðonne hié hié selfe to suíðe forsióð

    inconstantibus intimandum est, quod valde se despicientes negligunt

    ,
      Past. 305, 16.

  • Þá hálgan weras . . . heora gemynd þurhwunað . . . þá gímeleásan men þe heora líf ádrugon on ealre ídelnisse, heora gemynd is forgiten,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. I. 12.

  • Sume ic funde bútan Godes tácne gýmeleúse ungebletsade,

      Jul. 491.

  • Seó gehýrnes ne bið nyt on þǽm un-gelýfdum monnum and on þǽm gýmeleásum,

      Bl. H. 55, 32.

  • Yfellibbendum and gímeleásum (neglegentibus), R. Ben. I. 118, 10. ¶ with gen., careless of :-- Swá bið ðæt mód slǽpende gewundad swá hit ne gefrét, ðonne hit bið tó gímeleás his ágenra þearfa

    mens a cura suae sollicitudinis verberatur et non dolet

    ,
      Past. 431, 19.
that is not cared for, that is not guarded.
of a person,
without protection
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  • Hí cweðað, wuton cunnian hwænne bine God léte swá swá gýmeleásne

    dicentes, Deus dereliqnit eum

    ,
      Ps. Th. 70, 10.
of cattle,
stray, untended, un-watched
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  • Gif þé hecuje óðres giémeleás fioh on hand

    si occurreris bovi inimici tui aut asino erranti

    (Ex.
      23, 4), Ll. Th. i. 54, 9.

  • Wé nellen nán gýmeleás yrfe forgyldan

    nolumus aliqnod pecus incnstoditum et per inobseruantiam perditum reddere

    ,
      238, 10.
incurable. Cf. gíman ; I. 2 a
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  • Géme[me]leáse

    incurabiles

    ,
      Mt. p. 18, 5.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gíme-leás.” 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/50777.

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