Old English Dictionary Entry

Bet-nes

Part of speech: -ness, e;

Definitions

1 definitions

1 bet-nes

f. [bet better] Satisfaction, amends, amendment, recompence; satisfactio, compensatio :-- Ðæt ic búton betnesse beó mínra synna that I am, without amendment of my sins, L. De Cf. 10; Th. ii. 264, 16. bet-nes

Similar Words

-bald
-bátian, -bátung
-beámed(e)
-beámen
-bearde, -beardede

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖᛏ-ᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

L.: Latin

Works & Authors

Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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