Cáf-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cáf-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

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Definitions

1 cáf-ness

e; f. Alacrity, promptness, energy :-- God onscunað þá sleacnysse on his ðegnum, and ðá hé lufað þe mid cáfnysse þæs écan lífes myrhðe sécað, Hml. Th. ii. 282, 4. caf-ness

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ᚳᚪᚠ-ᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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