Obs. Forms: 1 leahter, 2 lehter, 3 leihter. [OE. leahter, f. OTeut. *lahan (OE. léan) to blame.] A vice, sin, crime.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. xi. [xiii.] (1890), 190. Ic ma synnum & leahtrum þeowde, þonne Godes bebodum.
971. Blickl. Hom., 163. Ne hie næniʓ leahter ne drefde.
c. 1175. Cott. Hom., 243. In þes deofles heriscole fihteð agen us his iferred ʓewerʓed gastes, and unþeawes and unwraste lahtres.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 79. Ðe fule lehtres him holden bunden on here þralshipe.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 156. Non empti stude iðe heorte to underuongen flesliche leihtren.
