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Old English
Etymology
þurh- + wunian
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Verb
þurhwunian
- to continue
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"
...ac hi þurhwunodon swa þeah on þam gewinne oð deað.- ...but they nevertheless continued in that warfare till death.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Blessed Stephen Protomartyr"
Cristes lufu us neadað þæt we simle þa gódan tihton, þæt hí on gódnysse þurhwunion; and ða yfelan we mynegiað, þæt hí fram heora yfelnessum hrædlice gecyrron.- Love of Christ compels us ever to stimulate the good, that they continue in goodness; and we admonish the wicked that they may quickly turn from their wickedness.
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