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  • Hungor

    fames vel popina,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 3.
the feeling caused by want of food
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  • Ne biþ þǽr hungor ne þurst, Bl. H. 65, 19. I a. exhaustion caused by want of food :-- Gif hé for hungre libban mæge, Ll. Th. i. 64, 13. Ib. lack of food (lit. or fig.) :-- Hungres fame, i. inedia (non te hordeo alam, sed paleis et

    fame

    conficiam,
      Aid. 34, 1), An. Ox. 2440.
  • I b a. with gen. of food :-- Nee

  • Hié lǽtað ðá sáwla ácwellan for hungre hira worda

    fame verbi animaepereant,

      Past. 377, 11.
  • Ic. personified, An. 1089: 1116 (in Dict.).
lack of food in a country, a famine
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  • Wæs geworden mycel hunger (-or, R. )

    facta est magna fames,

      Lk. 4, 25.

  • Hunger suíðe strong

    fames ualida,

      Lk. L. 15, 14.

  • Cóm micel hǽte . . . þæt ealle eorðwæstmas . . . forwurdon . . . Æfter þǽm wearð se mǽsta hunger

    siccitas fuit, uí praesentis tunc fufnrique anni spem gignendis terrae fructibus abnegarit,

      Ors. 2, 6; S. 88. 17.

  • Hié þæs hungres ne mehte hié gerestan

    fames Urbem corripuit,

      2, 4; S. 70, 9.

  • Hié for þǽm hungre þá burh werian ne mihton,

      Bl. H. 79, 16.

  • Biðon monncwalmo and hungro

    erunt pestilentiae et fames,

      Mt. L. 24, 7 : Lk. L. 21, 11.

  • Wé geáxiað hungras wexende,

      Bl. H. 109, 1.
a strong desire, craving
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  • Hit wirð gewundod mid ðǽm hungre ð æs nyðemestan and ðæs fúlestan geðóhtes

    cupiditatis infimae fame sauciatur,

      Past. 283, 17.
    þonne wé beóþ mid mycclum hungre yfelra geþóhta ábisgode, 61.
  • H. 19, 15.
a. a craving for something (gen. )
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  • Hit hæfð ðæs sníde micelne hunger,

      Past. 283, 20.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hungor.” 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/53384.

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