kire
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kire
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kire
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kire
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From Old English cyre (“choice, free will”).
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kīre (plural kires)
- choice, preference
- Þe wælwillendæ Scyppend let hyre habban hire a3ene cyres 3eweald. — Homilies in MS Bodley
- chosen, the elite
- Ghe knew wel ðe faderes kire. — Genesis and Exodus
- custom; customary
- Bigamie is unkinde ðing, On engleis tale, twie-wifing; for ai was rigt and kire bi-forn, On man, on wif, til he was boren. — Genesis and Exodus
- free will
- God heo geworhte wlitigum englen gecynde & let hi habben agenne cyre. — Early English Homilies
- decision, selection
- Þa heo hæfden..icoren Conan, þa lep mi fader up..& wið-seide þene cure. — Layamon's Brut