A-solcennys

Old English Dictionary Entry

A-solcennys

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -nyss, Related words:

Definitions

1 a-solcennys

e ; f. Idleness, sloth, slothfulness, sluggishness, laziness; ignavia, desidia, pigritia :-- Heora líðnys is asolcennys and nýtennys their mildness is sloth and ignorance, Homl. Th, ii. 46, 11 : 220, 21. Se sixta heáfodleáhter is asolcennyss the sixth chief sin is slothfulness, 218, 22. Þurh úre asolcennysse through our sluggishness, Th. Diplm. A. D. 970; 240, 12: Homl. Th. i. 602, 8. a-solcennys

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ᚪ-ᛋᚩᛚᚳᛖᚾᚾᚣᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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