Both Uses
wily
in
Beowulf
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- His glove hung aloft,
Wondrous and wide, in wily bands fast,
With cunning wiles was it begeared forsooth,
With crafts of the devils and fells of the dragons;
He me withinwards there, me the unsinning,
The doer of big deeds would do me to be 2090
As one of the many; but naught so it might be,
Sithence in mine anger upright I stood.†wily = clever - No wily hates sought I; for myself swore not many
Of oaths in unright.†*
Definitions:
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(1)
(wily) clever and good at tricking others to achieve a goal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)