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on-sting

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on-sting, Add: the right to intervene, or thrust oneself into, the affairs of another. Cf. stingan; <b>Ia</b>
Wright's OE grammar
§579;
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  • Icc nelle nâteswhôn geþafian ꝥ þaer æ̂nig man æ̂nigne onstyng habbe on æ̂nigum þingum,

      Cht. E. 303, 10.
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v. in-sting.
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