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
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia’s Lovers: ‘There’s a fremd man i’ t’ house.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
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 Brunton, Mary
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 Purves, D. Laing
Eng. fremed, stranger, cognate with Ger. fremd, so that opposite terms, which we find regularly contrasted in Mid.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
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