swiþost

Adverb

 * 1) ; especially, mostly, most
 * 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 swīðost 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.


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

- Menn behōfiaþ gōdre lāre, swīðost on þissum tīman.


 * 1) * c. 890, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan
 * "ang"

- Swīðost hē fōr þæder for þām horshwalum, for þon hīe habbaþ swīðe æðele bān on heora tōðum.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"
 * "ang"

- Þā cōm God þǣrtō þā þā hīe swīðost worhton, and sealde ǣlcum menn þe þǣr wæs synderlīċe sprǣċe.


 * 1) above all
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Beginning of Creation"
 * "ang"

- Þa wearð þa hrædlice micel mennisc geweaxen, and wæron swiðe manega on yfel awende, and gegremodon God mid mislicum leahtrum, and swīðost mid forligere.