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percrebrescere

percrebrescere, percrebescere [CL] , to be widely diffused, spread abroad. b (of rumour). c705 cujus strepitus per diversa terrarum spatia ‥ longe lateque ~ruit Aldh. Ep. 9 p. 501; quorum gemens ob verbera / vox in Rama percrebuit Bede Hymn. 2. 8; ~uit, mere wearð GlC P 204; quod cum ~uisset, ingenti gaudio civitas replebatur W. S. Alb. V. Alb. & Amphib. 33.  b p675 rumor ecclesiae fidei contrarius longe lateque ~ruit Aldh. Ep. 4 p. 482; rumorem sanctitatis illius in ea quoque insula longe lateque ~ruisse ferebat Bede HE III 13 p. 152; ejus fama ~uit R. Cold. Godr. 62; 1240 fama enim ~ruit quod convocabitur concilium Conc. Syn. 288; fama volatilis jam ubique ~ruit R. Bury Phil. 8. 119; 1439 inter subjectos nobis populos quidam minus grati ~uere rumores Bekynton I 65.

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