Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The people who speak Sorbian, or their descendants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Wends; Wendic.
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- adjective Of or relating to the
Wends . - proper noun The
language of theWends .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Reading about the Hundred, Adica's people, the Wendish, the elves and the Quman, I love the fact that some elements are very familiar, such as the colour of a mythology or the logic behind a social injunction, but that they are never combined quite like their Earth equivalents/originals, and always with enough newness thrown in that I have to actually * learn* this new world, rather than just assuming it.
kateelliott: the Values of the Humanities, and SFF kateelliott 2009
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The third POV, and the most interesting, is that of Rosvita, a churchwoman constructing an elaborate history of the Wendish peoples for the King's aged mother.
Archive 2007-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2007
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The third POV, and the most interesting, is that of Rosvita, a churchwoman constructing an elaborate history of the Wendish peoples for the King's aged mother.
King's Dragon & Prince of Dogs by Kate Elliott Adam Whitehead 2007
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Awww, and here I was hoping that "Wenglish" stood for a Wendish/English pidgin.
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She answered in Wendish, which I hardly understood.
The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003
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By the end of the century, the Wendish towns had taken the leadership from the Gothland merchants.
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Bitter civil war against the Hohenstaufens (112535); vigorous policy of German expansion among the Wends and Scandinavians; renewal of Wendish conversions (1127).
1125-37 2001
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Gertrude has come a long way from the Geruthe who was daughter of a captive Wendish princess (a nice touch of Updike's own).
It Happened at Elsinore Bayley, John 2000
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Well here's couples moaning together in the lifeboats, a drunk's gone to sleep in the awning over Slothrop's head, fat fellows in white gloves with pink magnolias in their hair are dancing tummy-to-tummy and murmuring together in Wendish.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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During the twelfth century, the Wendish kingdom was dissolved, and its territories divided amongst different German princes, after which the Church gradually regained and extended its hold on the country.
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt
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