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▪ I. † ˈfrover, n. Obs.
Forms: 1 frófer, -or, -ur, 2–3 frofer, 3 frofre, froure, frowere, frover(e, south. vroure.
[OE. frófor, str. fem. and masc. = OS. fróbra, frófra, OHG. fluobara.]
1. Comfort; a means of comforting.
Beowulf 698 Him dryhten forgeaf..frofor ond fultum. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 136 He ᵹe-andbidode ðone frofer. c1200Ormin 8786 Forr þatt he ȝifeþþ her hiss þeoww Hiss frofre o seofenn wise. a1225Ancr. R. 92 Þeonne schullen ȝe iseon hu al þe world nis nout, & hu hire uroure is fals. a1240Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 185 We..buggeþ worldles froure wiþ moni sori teone.
b. applied to God, the Holy Ghost.
a1225Juliana 11 Ȝef þu wult..leuen..i þe hali gast folkene froure. c1250Hymn to God 5 in Trin. Coll. Hom. App. 258 Vroure & hele folkes fader. c1250Gen. & Ex. 54 Hali froure welt oc ðat miȝt. c1275Lay. 387 Fader he his on heuene and alle man his frouere.
2. attrib., as Frover-Ghost [= OHG. fluobargeist]; also in syntactical form Frovre Ghost, the Comforter, the Holy Ghost.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John xiv. 26 Se haliᵹa frofre gast. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 322 Se Halga Gast..is ᵹehaten on Greciscum ᵹereorde, Paraclitus, ðæt is, Frofor-gast. c1175Lamb. Hom. 97 Þe frofre gast. c1200Ormin 10554 Þe Faderr, & te Frofre Gast Himm hafenn sett to demenn.
▪ II. † ˈfrover, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 fréfran, -ian, fróf(e)rian, 2–3 fréfrian, -en, 2–3 freuren, -in, 2–4 frou(e)ren, -in, south. vrouren, vroæfrien, (3 froðeren). Also 1–2 ᵹefréfran, -ian, 2 ifréfran, 3 ifrófren.
[OE. fréfrian, frófrian, also ᵹefréfran, ᵹefréfrian, f. frófor, frover n. Cf. OS. fróbrean, OHG. fluobiren.]
trans. To comfort, console. Const. for, of.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. v. v. (1890) 396 Cwæð he þæt ᵹewune⁓lice word þæra frefrendra. c1000Ags. Gosp. John xi. 19 Hiᵹ woldon hi frefrian for hyra broðor þingon. c1175Lamb. Hom. 97 He ifrefrað þa droriȝan. c1200Ormin 150 Forr þatt he wollde himm frofrenn. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 119 Bidde we nu þe holigost..þat he..freure us of alle soreȝe. c1205Lay. 19545 Þat [ich] on þissen felde mote beon ifroured. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 465/104 Pouere Men þare-with to freueri. c1315Shoreham 7 Frevereth thorwe his body man. c1320Cast. Loue 889 Of þulke [grace] þat alle [con] frouere.
Hence † ˈfrovering vbl. n.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 117 Ich wile ȝiu senden þe heuenliche frefringe wið-innen a lit daȝes. c1300Harrow. Hell 166 We hopeth wel thourh thy comyng Of oure sunnes haven froryng. |