anfealdlice
Old English
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editAdverb
editānfealdlīċe
- simply
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
- Ānfealdlīce hī sind scyldiġe ðurh Adames synne, and twyfealdlīce hī bēoð fordēmde, þonne hī wiðsacað Cristes tō-cymes, and nellað ġelȳfan on ðone sōðan Hǣlend.
- Simply they are guilty through Adam's sin, and doubly they will be condemned, when they deny Christ's coming, and will not believe in the true Healer (Christ).
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
- (grammatical) in the singular
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ánfeald-líce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.