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sige-dryhten

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
sige-dryhten, es ; m.
A victorious lord,
as a complimentary epithet of an earthly chief
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  • Sigedrihten mín, aldor Eást-Dena,

      Beo. Th. 788 ; B. 391.
  • Sigedryhten mín (

    the departed Guthlac

    ),
      Exon. Th. 184, 24 ; Gú. 1349.
  • Wit for uncrum sigedryhtne song áhófan,

      324, 33 ; Víd. 104.
as an epithet of the Deity
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  • Þeoda Waldend, sigedryhten mín,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2905 ; An. 1455 : Exon. Th. 176, 19 ; Gú. 1212 : Ps. C. 50, 119.
  • Þeoden engla, sóð sigedrihten,

      Hy. 6, 34.
  • Ðú eart selfa sigedrihten God,

      Met. 20, 260.
  • Ðonc secgan sigedryhtne, ðæs ðe hé hine sylfne ús sendan wolde,

      Exon. Th. 9, 1 ; Cri. 128 : Andr. Kmbl. 1753 ; An. 879.
  • Sigedrihten, mihtigne God,

      Cd. Th. 33, 21 ; Gen. 523 : 48, 20 ; Gen. 778.
Etymology
[O. Sax. sigi-drohtin (applied to the Deity).]
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