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wíte-þeów

  • adjective
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wíte-þeów, adj.
In slavery as a consequence of crime
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  • Be wíteðeówes monnes slege. Gif wíteþeów Englisc mon hine forstalie, hó hine mon,

    • L. In. 24
      • ;
    • Th. i. 118, 6
      • .

  • Gif ðǽr hwylc wíteðeów man sý ðe hió geðeówede, hió gelýfð tó hyre bearnon ðæt hí hine willon lýhtan for hyre sáulle,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 132, 8.

  • Wíteþeówne monnan Wyliscne mon sceal bedrífan be twelf hídum tó swingum,

    • L. In. 54
      • ;
    • Th. i. 138, 3.

  • Ic wullan ðæt man gefreógen ǽlcne wíteðeówne man on ǽlcum ðæra landæ ðæ ic mínon freóndon bæcwedden hæbbæ,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 128, 10.

  • Ðæt man freóge on ǽlcum túnæ ǽlcne wítæþæównæ mann ðæ undær hiræ geðeówuð wæs,

      360, 6.

  • Ðis is Ælfsiges biscopes cwide. Ðæt is ǽrest, ðæt ic wille ðæt man gefreóge ǽlcne wíteþeówne mannan ðe on ðam biscopríce sié for hine and for his cynehláford,

    • Cod. Dip. B. ii. 329, 17
      • :
    • L. Ath. i. proem.
      • ;
    • Th. i. 198, 9.

  • Wéron ðǽr þreó wíteþeówe men and þreó þeówberde,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 152, 8.

  • Be wíteðeówum mannum,

    • L. In. 48
      • ;
    • Th. i. 132, 6.
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Cf. wíte-fæst, and see Kemble's Saxons in England, i. 200, Grmm. R. A. 328.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wíte-þeów.” 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/36123.

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