innera

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Old English

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Etymology

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Comparative of the preposition in. Cognate with Old Norse innri, Old Dutch innero, Old High German innaro, Old Frisian inra.

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Adjective

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innera (no positive form, superlative innemest)

  1. (literal or figurative) inner, interior
    • 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online
      Hē fērde forþ ofer þæt wæter in þā inneran land þǣra hǣþenra.
      He journeyed forth over the water into the heathens' interior lands.
      Se earma innera mann, þæt is sēo wēriġe sāwol.
      The poor inner man, that is the weary soul.
      Þēah hē mē þāra ūterrena ġewinna ġefrēode, þēah winnaþ wiþ mē þā inneran unrihtlustas.
      Though he has freed me from outward struggles, yet the inner unjust lusts strive with me.

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