† witherwinn.
Obsolete.
An enemy, adversary; spec. the Adversary, the Devil.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun]
witherwinc897
foemaneOE
i-foeOE
withersakec960
fiendc975
foeOE
witherlingc1000
unwine1050
unholda1200
andsetec1200
unfriendc1275
un-i-winec1275
adversaryc1350
enemy1362
hatera1382
evil-willinga1400
fedea1400
contraryc1405
inimi1423
overthwarter?c1450
evil-willer1460
Moabitea1461
heavy friend?1518
Satanas1530
adverse1593
malengine1601
distresser1616
viand1616
hostile1838
unfriendly1973
the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > as enemy or fiend
witherwinc897
fienda1000
our foe?c1225
adversary1340
enemyc1384
fedea1400
our ghostly enemy1447
our ghostly foea1529
arch-foe1615
arch-traitor1751
arch-enemy1850
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xix. 146 Ðylæs he sie ongieten ðæt he sie wiðerwinna..ðæs þe he bið gesewen ðeow on his ðegnunge.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies (Assmann) i. 120 Ure wiðerwinna is witodlice se deofol.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 146 Vre wiðerwines beoð þreo. þe feont. þe world. vre achne flesc.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13639 Haðene hundes. Goddes wiðer-iwinnen [c1300 Otho wiþerwynnes].
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6648 Þo þis quene was of londe ydriue þoru hire wiþerwine.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6284 His folk he has al sauued sund, þair wiþerwins er broght to grund.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2215 Wrothely he..Woundes these whydyrewyns, werrayede knyghttes.
c1400 Melayne 695 Nowe arte þou werre þan any Sarazene, Goddis awenn wedirwyne.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xlvii. l. 42 Thike day Convertyd was..A thowsend & Fyfty Sarrazines that to fore tyme weren wethir-wynes.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 246 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 263 How þe ded he tholyt syne, to safe ws fra þe wethirwyne.
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