swa swa

Etymology
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Conjunction

 * 1) just as
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
 * "ang"

- Lōca nu þæt þū ofergemet ne wilnige, nū ðū hī tōgædere metest. Woldest þū cunnan God swā swā Alipius?


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and his wife Basilissa"
 * "ang"

- Iulianus sæde ure geþanc is swa swa hit wæs...


 * 1) as
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
 * "ang"

- Nāst þū lā Geori þæt ūre godas swincað mid þē and ġit hī synd ġeþyldiġe þæt hī þe miltsion. Nū lǣre ic ðē swā swā lēofne sunu þæt ðū þæra cristenra lāre forlǣte mid ealle and tō mīnum rǣde hraðe ġebūge swā þæt ðū offriġe þām ārwurðan Appoline and þū mycelne wurðmynt miht swā beġitan.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Preface"
 * "ang"

- Swa swa ælmihtig wyrhta, he wyrcð his weorc þurh his gecorenan, na swylce he behofige ures fultumes, ac þæt we geearnion þæt ece lif þurh his weorces fremminge.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"
 * "ang"

- Swā swā hī ǣr mid nette fixodon on sǣlicum yðum, swa dyde Crist þæt hī siððan mid his heofonlican lāre manna sawla gefixodon; forðan ðe hī ætbrudon folces menn fram flæsclicum lustum, and fram woruldlicum gedwyldum to staðolfæstnysse lybbendra eorðan, þæt is to ðam ecan eðle, be ðam cwæð se witega þurh Godes Gast, "Ic asende mine fisceras, and hī gefixiað hī; mine huntan, and hī huntiað hī of ælcere dune and of ælcere hylle."


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"
 * "ang"

- Þonne cymð se Antecrist, se bið mennisc mann and soð deofol, swā swā ure Hælend is soðlice mann and God on anum hade.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"
 * "ang"

- Eft cwæð se Ælmihtiga to þam witegan Isaiam, "Clypa and ne geswic ðu, ahefe þine stemne swā swā byme, and cyð minum folce heora leahtras, and Iacobes hirede heora synna."


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
 * "ang"

- Hī comon ða hrædlice, and gemetton Marīan, and Ioseph, and þæt cild geled on anre binne, swa swa him se engel cydde.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
 * "ang"

- And þa hyrdas gecyrdon ongean wuldrigende and herigende God, on eallum ðam ðingum ðe hī gehyrdon and gesāwon, swa swa him gesæd wæs.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
 * "ang"

- Swa swa on ðam timan be ðæs caseres gebanne gehwilce ænlipige on heora burgum be him sylfum cendon, swa eac nu us cyðað lāreowas Cristes gebann, þæt we ūs gegadrian to his halgan gelaðunge, and on ðære ures geleafan gafol mid estfullum mode him agifan, þæt ure naman beon awritene on lifes bec mid his gecorenum.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
 * "ang"

- Marīa wæs ða cuma ðær, swā swā þæt godspel ūs segð; and for ðæs folces geðryle wæs þæt gesthus ðearle genyrwed.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
 * "ang"

- Þa hyrdas gesawon, and oncneowon be ðam cilde, swā swā him gesǣd wæs.


 * 1) even as
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Prayer of Moses (Mid-Lent)"
 * "ang"

- Swa swa sume menn doð þe dyslice fæstað ofer heora mihte on gemænelicum lenctene, swa swa we sylfe gesawon oðþæt hi seoce wurdon.


 * 1) like
 * 2) * , year 473
 * "ang"

- Þā Wēalas flugon þā Engle swā swā fȳr.


 * 1) according to
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"
 * "ang"

- For þisum antimbre ic gedyrstlæhte, on Gode truwiende, þæt ic ðas gesetnysse undergann, and eac forðam þe menn behofiað godre lare swiðost on þisum timan þe is geendung þyssere worulde, and beoð fela frecednyssa on mancynne ærðan þe se ende becume, swa swa ure Drihten on his godspelle cwæð to his leorning-cnihtum, "Ðonne beoð swilce gedreccednyssa swilce næron næfre ær fram frymðe middangeardes.