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distinguished, prominent
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  • Hí nǽron for nánum cræfte gecorene, búton for dyseges folces heringe, Bt. 27, 3; F. 100, 3. (l a)

    distinguished by excellence, excellent, noble

    :-- Se eádiga wer wæs gecoren man on godcundum dǽdum and ealra gesnyttra goldhord.
      Guth. 92, 16.

  • Þára monna mód þe beóð on heora gecynde gecorene

    praestantes natura mentes,

      Bt. 18, 1; F. 60, 22.

  • Þá feówer and twéntig gecorenra þe God heriað (cf.

    vigintiquattuor seniores cantabant ... dicentes: 'Dignus es, Domine,'

      Rev. 5, 8-9), Ll. Lbmn. 415, 18.

  • Þá æþelan, þá gecorenan

    emeritos,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 73.

  • Þæt gecoreneste

    lectissima (uirgo ),

      95, 43: 52, 66.
approved, held in high esteem
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  • Ðysse wyrte syndon twá cynrena ... óþer ys tó lǽcedómum swýþe gecoren,

      Lch. i. 298, 6. (2 a) with dat. of person approving :--
    Wæs ðæt Gode swíðe gecoren man on his dǽdum, Bl. H. 211, 15.

  • Se sunnandæg is swíáe micelum gecoren eallum Godes gesceaftum, for ðám þe hé wæs ealra daga se ǽresta, and hé bið se néxta,

      Wlfst. 209, 31.

  • Heó wǽron þá sélestan and þá gecorenestan witan ǽgðer ge Gode ge mannum,

      214, 4.
beloved; dilectus
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  • Eálá ðú mín gecorena

    dilecte mi,

      Kent. Gl. 1125.
honourable; probus
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  • Gecorenum

    probo (proco ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 95, 20.

  • Wer gecorenne (-one, -ene, v.ll.) on his þeáwum

    uirum probum moribus,

      Bd. 3, 23; Sch. 299, 9.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-coren.” 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/47510.

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