þolian

þolian
wv/t2 to thole, suffer, endure, undergo; 1. to suffer what is evil, punishment, reproach, illness, grief, etc.; 1a. to suffer, undergo, submit to discipline, treatment, allow; 1b. of things which are used to do hard work; 2. to suffer a person, bear with, tolerate a condition of things, let come to pass; 3. w.g. to suffer lack or loss of something, to lose what one has, lack, to fail to get what one desires; in many cases the loss or failure is the result of wrong either done or suffered by the subject of a verb, to forfeit, dispense with, be (wrongfully) deprived of; 3a. with a preposition; 4. wv/i2 to hold out, exercise endurance, endure, not to give in, persevere; of things, to last, continue to be serviceable; remain, survive; fréotes \þolian to be reduced to slavery; héafdes \þolian to forfeit life

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