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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Early Middle English: an inexact term applied to Middle English in its first stage, the period from about 1150 to about 1250, when the Saxon inflections had not wholly fallen away.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250.

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