fremd
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of fremd
Old English fremde ; related to Old High German fremidi
Example Sentences
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And for he was far and fremd bestead Yslain he should have be.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
"Twenty-three years," he bellowed at the top of his voice, for he saw that I was fremd, and wished to make himself clear.
From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
Fremde: foreign, strange; German, "fremd" in the northern dialects, "frem," or "fremmed," is used in the same sense.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
Blessings on his face for her sake! for had it not been for him, she would have had none but a fremd hand to lay the sod on her.'
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
Eng. fremed, stranger, cognate with Ger. fremd, so that opposite terms, which we find regularly contrasted in Mid.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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