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Wright's OE grammar
§7; §92; §169; §238; §288; §293; §447;
Add: when used without an immediately following noun the nominative is seofon or seofone.
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  • .vii. fiscas sélaes fyllu, sifu sélas hronaes fyllu, sifu hronas hualaes fyllu,

      An. Ox. 54, 1.
    Þǽra eádigra seofon slǽpera ðrowung, Hml. S. 23, 1.

  • Ne secge ic þé oð seofon (seofun,

      R., seofo. L.)
    síðas, ac oð seofon hundseofontigon síðon, Mt. 18, 22. (1 a) in combination with decades :-- Twá hundredum and seofon and sixtigum fíftýne geáres getel, An. Ox. 3036.
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  • Þǽra diácona wæs se forma Stephanus. . . þá oðre six wǽron . . . Ðás seofon hí gecuron,

      Hml. Th. i. 44. 18.

  • Fífe lǽgun . . . swilce seofene eác, eorlas Anláfes,

      Chr. 937; P. 108, 11.

  • Sume menn þisra seofona héddon,

      Hml. S. 23, 137. (2 a) where age is marked :--
    Wæs án twelf geára, óþer nigan geára, and se þridda seofan geára, Shrn. 58, 12.
forming part of an ordinal
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  • On ðǽm siofan-and-hundsiofantiogoðan psalme,

      Past. 465, 4.

  • Se seofan-and-hundeahtatigeða,

      R. Ben. 37, 18.
the abstract number seven
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  • Twía seofon beóð feówertýne,

      Angl. viii. 302, 45.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “seofon.” 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/57994.

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