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neádunga (-inga)

  • adverb
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neádunga (-inga), adv.
Forcibly, not willingly, under compulsion, of necessity
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  • Hé nolde niman mancyn neádunga of ðam deófle búton hé hit forwyrhte

    he would not have taken mankind by force from the devil, unless he had forfeited it,

    • Homl. Th. i. 216, 5.

  • Ðone cniht ðe hé neádinga genam (

    rapuisset

    ),
    • Ors. 1, 8
      • ;
    • Swt. 42, 10.

  • Hí hine neádunga mid him lǽddon

    invitum duxerunt,

    • Bd. 3, 18
      • ;
    • S. 546, 22.

  • Gif lǽweda man neádinga (

    invite

    )

    man ofsleá,

    • L. Ecg. P. ii. 1
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 182, 16.

  • Neádunga,

    • L. M. I. P. 6
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 266, 27.

  • Gif hé (man) wǽre neádunga (without power of choice, necessarily ) Gode underþeód, ðonne næfde hé nán wuldor for gódum weorcum,

    • Boutr. Scrd. 17, 26.

  • Sió leáse gesǽlþ tíhþ on lást neádinga (

    inevitably

    )

    ða ðe hiere tó geþeódaþ from ðǽm sóðum gesǽlþum; seó wiðerweardnes full oft ealle ða ðe hiere underþeódde bióþ, neádinga getíhþ tó ðám sóðum gesǽlþum, swá swá mid angle fisc gefangen biþ,

    • Bt. 20
      • ;
    • Fox 72, 7-11.
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v. nídinga and preceding word.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “neádunga (-inga).” 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/23465.

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