Definitions
Definitions
1 gleáwnes
f. Prudence, skill, wisdom, ability, sagacity, acuteness :-- Gleáwnys argutiæ, Ælfc. Gl. 115; Som. 80, 48; Wrt. Voc. 61, 26. Gleáwnysse prudentiam, Ps. Spl. 48, 3: 104, 20. He hæfde ða gleáwnysse Godes beboda to healdenne and to lǽranne industriam faciendi et docendi mandata cælestia, Bd. 3, 17; S. 545, 9. Twegen geonge æðelingas mycelre glauwnesse men of Angelþeóde duo juvenes magnæ indolis, de nobilibus Anglorum, 3, 27; S. 558, 29. Wer well gelǽred and scearpre gleáwnysse vir doctissimus atque excellentis ingenii, 4, 23; S. 594, 35. Þeód is búton geþeahte and bútan glǽwnisse the nation is void of counsel and of understanding, Deut. 32, 28. Beheald ðas sunnan mid gleáwnysse behold this sun intelligently, Homl. Th. i. 284, 34. Seó orþonce gláunes the ingenious skill, Blickl. Homl. 99, 31. Mid gleáwnesse feónd oferfeohtaþ with prudence they overcome the fiend, Exon. 44 a; Th. 150, 6; Gú. 774: Elen. Kmbl. 1920; El. 962. gleawnes
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