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á-wirdness

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1 á-wirdness

Add to á-wyrdnys in Dict.: I. corruption, blemish:--Líchaman unbrosnigendlicne bútan eallum wommum and bútan áwyrdnysse, Hml. A. 45, 522. Ðá ðe tó Godes ríce gebyrigað nabbað náðor ne womm ne áwyrdnysse on heora líchaman, Hml. Th. i. 236, 31. II. injury, annoy, affliction:-- 'Búton wé ðǽre sáwle derian magon, ðá líchaman þurhwuniað on heora áwyrdnysse.' Hé cwæð: 'Hú becume gé tó ðǽre sáwle áwyrdnysse?', Hml. Th. i. 464, 1-4. Þonne bið geðúht swilce wé hí gehǽlon, ðonne wé geswícað ðǽra áwyrdnyssa (cf. gedreccednysse, l. 25), 462, 27. a-wirdness
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ᚪ-ᚹᛁᚱᛞᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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