Smyltness

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

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smyltness

f. Quiet, calm, serenity, tranquillity. I. of physical calm:--Ðá bebeád hé ðam winde and ðære sǽ, and ðǽr wearð geworden mycel smyltness, Mt. Kmbl. 8, 26. Smyltnes, Mk. Skt. 4, 39: Blickl. Homl. 235, 9. On smyltnysse lyfta serenitate aerum, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 30. I a. the quiet of evening, evening:--Miððý éfern l smyltnis, (sero) eére áwordæn, Mk. Skt. Lind. 4, 35. Smyltnise, Jn. Skt. Lind. 6, 16. Næhtes smyltnisse noctis quiete, Rtl. 37, 35. I b. gentleness, quietness in action:--Hig hine mid ealre smyltnesse swá gelǽddon and on heora fiðerum bǽron, ðæt hé ne mihte ne on scipe fægeror gefered beón, Guthl. 5; Gdwin. 40, 16, 14. II. quiet, silence:--Smyltnisse gesette silentium inposuisset, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 22, 34. III. placidity, calmness:--Cara cura, oferfǽt obesus, smyltnys pinguedo (placidity?), Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 11. IV. peace, tranquillity, quiet:--Smyltnes wæs ofor eorþan and sibba genihtsumnes, Blickl. Homl. 115, 9. Ðurh ðæt wierð tóslieten sió stilnes hiera hiéremonna módes and biþ gedréfed sió smyltnes hiera lífes eo subditorum vitam dissipata quietis tranquillitate confundunt, Past. 40, 1; Swt. 289, 8. Anweald on sibbe smyltnesse gehealdan, Lchdm. iii. 436, 13. Swefn siriyltnysse and glædnysse gehátaþ, 156, 14. Tídlíc smyltnisse girǽce and líf gibrenga éce temporalem tranquilitatem tribuat et vitam conferat sempiternam, Rtl. 31, 28. V. calmness, composure:--Ðý læs ða smyltnesse ðæs dómes gewemme tó hræd ierre, Past. 13; Swt. 79, 13. smyltness