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Webster 1913 Edition

Adeling

Ad′el-ing

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Noun.
Same as
Atheling
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Webster 1828 Edition

Adeling

AD'ELING

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Noun.
a title of honor given by our Saxon ancestors to the children of princes, and to young nobles. It is composed of adel, or rather athel, the Teutonic term for noble, illustrious, and ling, young posterity.

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