ǽ-melness

Old English Dictionary Entry

ǽ-melness

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ǽ-melness

Add: I. want of energy or of interest, sloth:--Se sixta heáfodleahtor (accidia) is ásolcennys oððe ǽmelnys. Se leahtor déð ðæt ðám men ne lyst nán ðing tó góde gedón, ac gǽð him ásolcen fram ǽlcere dugeðe, Hml, Th. ii. 220, 22. Ǽmylnys, Hml. S. 1, 107. II. weariness, tedium, disgust:--Ǽmelnes fastidium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 146, 46. Ðǽr beóð ealle unrótnyssa, ádl and yrre and ǽmelnys taedia, tristitiae, indignatio, languor (Dóm. L. p. 25, 115), Wlfst. 139, 18: Dóm. L. 228. Unrótnes, ǽmelnys taedia, tristitiae, 260. Snoffan ǽmylnysse nausiae tedio, Angl. xiii. 369, 50. Ǽmælnessa fastidia, Hpt. 33, 238, 5. æ-melness

Runic Inscription

ǽ-ᛗᛖᛚᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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