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wītī̆e
n.
37 quotations in 2 senses
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Bibl.
(a) One of the prophets, esp. those of the Old Testament;
witegene bokes
, the prophetical books of the Old Testament (b) as an epithet with a proper noun:
the (se, than, thane, thas, tho) witie
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