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un-forworht

  • adjective
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un-forworht, adj.
Not criminal, innocent
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  • Wǽron earme men beswicene and út of ðisan earde gesealde swýðe unforworhte fremdum tó gewealde,

    • Wulfst. 158, 13,

  • Úre hláfordes gerǽdnes is ðæt man cristene menn and unforworhte of earde ne sylle,

    • L. Eth. v. 2
      • ;
    • Th. i. 304, 15.

  • Se ðe hit áwende æt unforworhtum þingum

    he who sets aside the grant when there is no criminality on the part of the grantee

    (cf. the phrase frequent in Oswald's charters: Gif hwá búton gewyrhtum hit ábrecan wille,
    • iii. 21, 30,
      • and often.
    See also, in another of Oswald's charters: Si quid praefatorum delicti praeuaricantis causa defuerit jurum, praevaricationis delictum secundum quod praesulis jus est emendet, aut illo quo antea potitus est dono et terra careat, vi. 125; and see Kemble's Saxons in England, i. 311),
    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 408, 5.
Etymology
[
O. Frs. un-forwrocht not forfeited.
]
Similar entries
v. for-wyrcan.
Linked entries
v.  for-wyrcan fór-wyrcan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “un-forworht.” 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/32970.

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