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ofer-prút

  • adjective
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Grammar
ofer-prút, ofer-prúd; adj.
Excessively proud, puffed up
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  • Ne bisceop . . . bisceophádes intingan regules beboda oferprút þrístlíce betwyxsende

    nec episcopus episcopatus occasione regulę beboda tumidus temere intermittat,

      Angl. xiii. 373, 104.
  • Ys uppáhafennyss þearfena, þá ne welan upp áhebbað, and willa on him sylf oferprút ys

    est elatio pauperum, quos nec diuitię eleuant, et uoluntas in eis sola superba est, Scint.

      183, 12.
  • God gewilnað beón unbunden andettende ꝥ hé ná oferprúte wítnian genýde (

    ne contumaces punire cogatur),

      38, 13.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. over-proud.]
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  • ofer-prút, adj.