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un-forboden

  • adjective
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un-forboden, adj.
Unforbidden, not prohibited, free from any moral or legal hindrance
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  • Ðæt hí móston him beran unforboden flǽsc,

    • Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 91.

  • Swá ic hit hæbbe, swá hit se sealde, ðe tó syllanne áhte, unforboden

    ( no one had a right to forbid the entering into possession of the property ),

    • L. O. 13
      • ;
    • Th. i. 184, 5.

  • Unforboden and unbesacan,

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iv. 234, 20.

  • Gebohte se arcebisceop æt Ælfhége ðæt land æt Sendan mid .xc. pundum, and æt Sunnanbyrg mid .cc. mancussan goldes, unbecwedene and unforbodene wið ǽlcne man tó ðære dægtíde; and hé him swá ða land geágnian derr, swá him se sealde ðe tó syllenne áhte,

    • Chart. Th. 208, 38.
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v.  un-besacen for-beódan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “un-forboden.” 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/32929.

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