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Old English · adjective

gecweme

Normalised ġecwēme

Part of speech
adjective
Modern English
acceptableagreeableappropriatepleasant

Meaning

  1. pleasant, agreeable, acceptable

    Ne bið nān lāc Gode swā ġecwēme swā se gōda willa.

    No gift is so acceptable to God as good will.

    c. 992, Ælfric, Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"
  2. suitable, appropriate

Declension

All forms (11)

Etymology

ġe- + cwēme, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaz.

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