† lahtern.
Obsolete.
A vice, sin, crime.
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c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xi. [xiii.] 190 Ic ma synnum & leahtrum þeowde, þonne Godes bebodum.
971 Blickl. Hom. 163 Ne hie nænig leahter ne drefde.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 243 In þes deofles heriscole fihteð agen us his iferred gewerged gastes, and unþeawes and unwraste lahtres.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 79 Ðe fule lehtres him holden bunden on here þralshipe.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 123 Nan empti stude iþe heorte to underfon fleschliche lachtren.
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