Or-wénness

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

e;

or-wénness

f. Despair, hopelessness:--Ðonne biþ him seó orwénnys (desperatio illa) tó máran synne geteald, L. Ecg. P. i. 4; Th. ii. 172, 24. Hwí sprecst ðú mid swá micelre orwénnysse? Homl. Th. i. 534, 22. On orwénnysse his ágenre hǽle in despair of his own salvation, Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 24. Woldon hý geteón in orwénnysse Meotudes cempan, Exon. Th. 136, 27; Gú. 547. or-wenness