Obs. [OE. wiþerian = MDu. wedderen, OHG. widarôn (MHG. wider(e)n): f. wiþer (see prec.).] intr. To be hostile; to offer resistance, fight, struggle.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., I. 552. For ði synd ða ʓesibsuman Godes bearn, forðan ðe nan ðing on him ne wiðeraþ onʓean God.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 63. Ȝif we wiðerið on dede and on speche toȝenes ure chirche.

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c. 1220.  Bestiary, 475. Til ðat ðer fleȝes faren and fallen ðer-inne, wiðeren in ðat web, and wilen ut wenden.

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a. 1225.  St. Marher., 14. Wrestlin ha moten ant wiðerin wið ham seoluen.

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13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., C. 48. Þenne is me lyȝtloker hit lyke … Þenne wyþer wyth & be wroth.

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