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in-fær

  • noun [ neuter ]
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in-fær, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§575;
An entrance, ingress
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  • Ðá gesette God æt ðam infære engla hyrdrǽdene

    then God set a guard of angels at the entrance,

    • Gen. 3, 24.
  • Mid ðam innfære mid ðam ðe hé inn áfaren wæs

    by the entrance at which he had entered,

    • Homl
    • ;
    • Th. i. 178, 2
    • .
  • Hé hæfþ gerýmed rihtwísum mannum infær tó his ríce

    he hath opened to righteous men an entrance to his kingdom,

    • 28, 13.
  • Geopenige úre sárnys ús infær sóðre gecyrrednysse

    let our affliction open to us an entrance to true conversion,

    • ii. 124, 7.
  • Of inferum

    ex aditis, i. ex ingressibus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 49.
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v. in-faru.
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  • in-fær, n.