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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See min.

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Examples

  • Nis nu cwicra nan þe ic him modsefan minne durre sweotule asecgan.

    Believing the Wanderer Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • Nis nu cwicra nan þe ic him modsefan minne durre sweotule asecgan.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • And so, listen while I tell a tale, never sung or harped in hall or bower, and which, I begin to think, deserves as much credit, at least, as is due to the Tales of the Round Table, which ancient troubadours and minne-singers dole out to us as the authentic chronicles of your renowned namesake.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • “Friendship” translates the M.H.G. “minne trinken” ‘to drink to the memory of a person’, an old custom originating with the idea of pouring out a libation to the gods.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • *This would change when Walther von der Vogelweide** started a new tradition of courtly-love poetry called nidere minne (lower love) or Mädchenlieder (girl's songs), insisting that love must be "mutual."

    Minnesänger Mittwoch. Heo 2006

  • St Audiens rosan chocolate chapelry with my diamants blickfeast after at minne owned hos for all the catclub to go cryzy and

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • And I built in Urbs in Rure, for minne elskede, my shiny brows, under astrolobe from my upservatory, an erd-closet with showne ejector wherewithin to be squatquit in most covenience from her sabbath needs, when open noise should stilled be: did not I festfix with mortarboard my unniversiries, wholly rational and gottalike, sophister agen sorefister, life sizars all?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • *This would change when Walther von der Vogelweide** started a new tradition of courtly-love poetry called nidere minne (lower love) or Mädchenlieder (girl's songs), insisting that love must be "mutual."

    Archive 2006-02-01 Heo 2006

  • Når dere ringer om 10 år kan det hende dere må minne meg om hvem dere er.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Torill 2005

  • If they would not give us _minne-cha-lu-za_, I went on, we could not print the paper any more, or keep _she-la_, or trade for posts.

    Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

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