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un-wemme

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un-wemme, adj.
of concrete objects, spotless, without blemish, without defect, uninjured
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  • Lamb unwemme

    agnus absque macula,

    • Ex. 12, 5: Lev. 9, 2, 3.

  • Se æþela wong ǽghwæs onsund wið ýðfare gehealden stód hreóra wǽga unwemme

    ille locus, cum diluvium mersisset fluctibus orbem, exsuperavit aquas,

    • Exon. Th. 200, 25
      • ;
    • Ph. 46.

  • Hé eft mid his unwemmum líchaman hine gegyrede,

    • Blickl. Homl. 89, 35.

  • Hé gelǽdde ðæt folc ealle unwemme ofer ða Reádan sǽ

    he led the people all of them uninjured over the Red Sea,

    • Btwk. 196, 2.
of abstract objects, uninjured, inviolate
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  • Cyninges handgrið stande unwemine,

    • L. E. G. 1
      • ;
    • Th. i. 166, 21
      • (cp.
    • L. Eth. vi. 14
      • ;
    • Th. i. 318, 25
      • ).

  • Godes cyrican wé sculan ǽfre lufian and nǽfre derian wordes ne weorces, ac griðian hý symle and healdan unwemme,

    • Wulfst. 67, 17.

  • Hí eodon of ðam fýre feorh unwemme,

    • Exon. Th. 197, 7
      • ;
    • Az. 186.
in a moral sense, undefiled, pure, immaculate, perfect
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  • For ðí ic weorðe unwemme ( immaculatus ) beforan him,

    • Ps. Th. 17, 23: 18, 12.

  • Sié heorte mín unwemme,

    • Ps. Surt. 118, 80.

  • Se Hǽlend betwux synfullum unwemme fram ǽlcere synne ðurhwunode,

    • Homl. Th. i. 356, 14.

  • On unwemmum (ðæm unwemman, Surt.) wege

    in via immaculata,

    • Ps. Th. 100, 1.

  • Unwemne weg,

    • Ps. Surt. 17, 33.

  • Flǽsc unwemme,

    • Exon. Th. 26, 18
      • ;
    • Cri. 418.

  • Hié scoteden ðone unwemman,

    • Ps. Surt. 63, 5.

  • Unwemme synt ðíne wegas

    impolluta via ejus,

    • Ps. Th. 17, 29.

  • Ða ðe unwemme ( immaculati ) on hiora Dryhtnes ǽ gangaþ,

    • 118, 1.

  • Weagas unwemra,

    • Ps. Surt. 36, 18.

  • Unwæmme,

    • Ps. Th. 17, 31.

  • Ðæt wé úrne líchaman and úre sáwle swá unwemme him ágeofan on dómes dæg, swá hé hine ǽr gesceóp,

    • Blickl. Homl. 103, 22.
of virginity, pure, immaculate :
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  • -- Unwemme

    immunis (carnali spurcitia, Ald. 21),

    • Hpt. Gl. 442, 5: Homl. Skt. i. 7, 59.

  • Fram unwemre fǽmnan ácenned,

    • Blickl. Homl. 167, 21.

  • Æt Sancta Maria ðære unwemman fǽmnan,

    • 105, 20.

  • Heó lufode ðone Hǽlend ðe hí heóld unwemme,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 20, 18: Exon. Th. 19, 13
      • ;
    • Cri. 300.

  • Uuwemme

    immunes, incontaminati,

    • Hpt. Gl. 447, 43.

  • Hér syndon inne unwemme twá dohtor míne, ne can ðara idesa ówðer gieta þurh gebedscipe beorna neáwest,

    • Cd. Th. 148, 30
      • ;
    • Gen. 2864.
Etymology
[
Goth. un-wamms sine macula, immaculatus
:
O. Sax. idis un-wamma; acc.
]
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v.  on-wæmme -wemme.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “un-wemme.” 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/33957.

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