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  • Ungehǽmed fǽmne

    innupta, i. uirgo,

    • An. Ox. 1174.

  • Scylcen, fǽmne, meówle

    iuuencula, i. uirguncula,

    • 2112.

  • Ceorlstrang fǽmne

    virago,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 17, 18
      • .

  • Þá cwæð Adam: 'Beó hire nama Uirago, þæt is fǽmne, for ðan ðe heó is of hire were genumen,'

    • Hml. Th. i. 14, 24.

  • Fram wǽpenleásre fémnan

    e virgine inermi,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 39.
  • ¶ referring to the Virgin Mary:

    Heó is seó clǽneste fǽmne, and heó wæs fǽmne ǽr hire beorþre and heó wunaþ fǽmne æfter hire beorþre,

    • Bl. H. 155, 33.

  • Þú wǽre symle fǽmne oncnáwen . . . þone Hǽlend þú fémne (fǽmne, v. l.) geeácnodest, eác swilce fǽmne ácendest,

    • Hml. S. 23 b, 436-446
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  • Ðá ealra fǽmnena cwén cende þone Hǽlend . . . ðá hé líchaman onféng. Æt Sc̃a Marian, þǽre unwemman fǽmnan,

    • Wlfst. 251, 8-13
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Bosworth, Joseph. “fǽmne.” 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/44361.

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