flocmælum
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Adverb[edit]
flocmǣlum
- in flocks, (figuratively) in droves
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
- Culfran sind swīðe unsċeþþiġe fuglas and bilewite, and hīe lufiaþ ānnesse and flēogaþ him flocmǣlum.
- Pigeons are very gentle and innocent birds, and they love unity and travel in flocks.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
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Further reading[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “floccmǽlum”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.