sweotollice
Old English
Alternative forms
- swutelīċe, swutollīċe
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswe͜o.tolˌliː.t͡ʃe/
Adverb
sweotollīċe
- clearly
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost"
- Swutelīce we magon understandan þæt gehwilces rihtwises mannes sawul is heofon, þonne Crist is Godes Wisdom, and rihtwises mannes sawul is þæs wisdomes setl, and seo heofen is his setl.
- Clearly we may understand that the soul of every righteous man is heaven, when Christ is God's Wisdom, and the soul of a righteous man is the seat of wisdom, and heaven is his seat.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost"
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sweotollíce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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