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hreówsian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§536; §659;
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to grieve, lament for
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  • Ongan se wísdóm hreówsian for þæs módes týdernesse, and ongan giddian

    his versibus de nostrae mentis perturbatione conquesta est,

      Bt. 3, 2; F. 6, 6.
to grieve for sin,
repent of evil.
absolute
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  • 'Hreówsiað . . .' Ǽrest hé lǽrde ðæt hí hreówsodon

    'paenitentiam agite'. . . Praemisit paenitentiae lamenta,

      Past. 425, 35.

  • Is micel ðearf . . . ðæt hé sóna hreówsige

    necesse est, ut apud se semper ad poenitentiam recurrat,

      165, 21.

  • Ðæt hí mægen be ðǽm ilcan gemete hreówsian

    ut mensura lamentationis erigantur,

      417, 34.

  • Hwílum him ðyncð ðæt hé hæbbe fierst genógne tó hreówsianne

    modo adhuc tempus subsequens ad poenitentiam pollicetur,

      415, 35.

  • Mára gefeá wyrð on hefonum for ánum hreówsiendum,

      411, 13.
with acc. or uncertain
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  • Sé ðe his synna forlǽt and hí ne hreówsað,

      Past. 425, 29, 37.

  • Ðá ðe ðá geðóhtan synna hreówsiað,

      417, 32: 419, 19.

  • Ðá ðe ðá gedónan scylda hreówsiað, . . . Ðæt mon hreówsige hit synna,

      411, 24-29: 437, 21.

  • Ðæt hié hira unryhtwísnesse hreówsian,

      425, 24.

  • Hé sceal his ágnu yfelu hreówsian,

      461, 22: 421, 13.
with gen.
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  • Ðǽt mód innan hreówsað ðæs unnyttes þe se líchoma ǽr dyde

    magis intus quod fecimus, dolemus,

      Past. 259, 23.

  • Ðæt mód ðæs hreówsað,

      415, 27.

  • Sceal hé ðára lǽstena worda hreówsian,

      199, 16.
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  • Hé hreówsade ðæt hé him ǽfre suá ungeriesenlíce geðénigan sceolde,

      Past. 199, 18.
with prep.
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  • Ðonne hié for ánre hwelcre hreówsiað, ðonne hreówsiað hié for ealle dum per unumquodque erroris sui inquinationem deflent simul se ac totos lacrymis mundent, Past. 413, 24. II a. of penitence in an ecclesiastical sense,

    to do penance

    :-- Hí sceolon seofon geár mid micelre angsumnysse hreówsian,
      Hml. A. 149, 125.
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v. ge-hreówsian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hreówsian.” 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/53185.

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