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fore-spræc

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Grammar
fore-spræc, fóre-spræc.
Take these together under fore-sprǽc, and add:
speech on behalf of a person or thing.
advocacy
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  • Hé ús gefreóð mid his foresprǽce from écum wítum

    advocatione sua nos ab aeternis suppliciis liberans,

    • Past. 261, 10
      • .

  • Cam Putrael tó Boia and bed his forespéce tó Ælfríce. Þá sette Boia þás spéce wið Ælfríce; ꝥ wes ꝥ Putrael sealde Ælfríce viii oxan . . . and . . . gef Boia sixtig penga for þére forspǽce,

    • Cht. E. 274, 3-6
      • .

  • Tó foresprǽce ꝥ se cwyde standan móste,

    • Cht. Th. 501, 13.

  • Ryhtes wyrðe for míre forspǽce,

    • 170, 4
      • .
excuse
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  • Forespréc nabbas

    they have nothing to say for themselves;

    excusationem non habent,

    • Jn. L. 15, 22
      • .
speech by the representative of another, what is said by a sponsor
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  • Ðeáh þæt cild sprecan ne mage þonne hit man fullað, his freónda foresprǽc (forspǽc, v. l.) forstent him eall þæt ylce þe hit sylf sprǽce,

    • Wlfst. 110, 4
      • :
    • 38, 16.
what has been already said, the contents of a document
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  • Ðeós forespréc and þás gewriotu ðe hér beufan áwreotene stondaþ

    (the reference is to the provisions of a will),

    • Cht. Th. 483, 8
      • .
preliminary speech, a preface, prologue
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  • Foresprǽce

    in prologo, i. in sequentis operis praefatione,

    • An. Ox. 2298
      • .

  • Þǽra láreówa naman ic áwrát on ðǽre Ledenan foresprǽce

      (v.
    • Hml. Th. i. 1),
    • Hml. Th. ii. 2, 9
      • :
    • Hml. S. 15, 108
      • .
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. fore-speech.
O. H. Ger. fora-spráhha prologus, praefatio.
]
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “fore-spræc.” 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/45606.

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