gedwola

• ġedweola

From or related to the verb dwolian (“to make a mistake, be wrong”).

• IPA^(key): /jeˈdwo.lɑ/

ġedwola m

1. (countable) mistake, error
2. (uncountable) error

   sē mennesca ġedwola

   human error

3. (countable, uncountable) heresy
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Þēos sibb āwunade on Crīstes cyriċan...ōþ ðā tīde þe sē Arrianisċa gėdweolda ārās.

     This peace persisted in Christ's church...until the time that the Arian heresy arose.

4. heretic

Weak:

• ġedwolcræft
• ġedwolgod
• ġedwolsprǣc

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠEDWOLA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.