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  1. Alternative form of for a word-break at the end of a line
    • 1960, English Vernacular Hands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries (in Middle English), page 21:
      Now with ínne fewe dayes was notyfied on to me þat þe lyf of our’ fader seynt augus
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      Now within a few days I was informed that the love of our father Saint Augustine