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  • Eówer bróðer is snotor and rǽdfæst

    your brother is a man of counsel

    (1
      Macc. 2, 65), Hml. S. 25, 264: Solil. H. 61, 9.
  • Ælfstán arceƀ wæs swíðe rǽdfast man ǽgðer ge for Gode and for worulde,

      Chr. 1019 ; P. 154, 19.
  • Leofa þín líf, gif ðú lǽwede mann sý on rihtum sinscipe, mid rǽdfæstum móde,

      Hml. A. 7, 158.
  • Rǽdfæst mód oneardaþ sé þe sárigende be andwerdum tó éceum eftst

    consiliatorem animum inhabitat qui dolens de presentibus ad aeterna restinat,

      Scint. 200, 17.
  • Þá hálgan hé hét geoffrian heora lác þám lífleásum godum, gif hí heora lífes róhton oþþe rǽdfæste wǽron,

      Hml. S. 29, 279.
  • For ðan þe Rómánisce witan wǽron ðá mihtige and rǽdfæste on weorcum (cf. Judas is informed of the power and

    policy

    of the
      Romans, 1 Macc. 8), 25, 646.
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