Old English Dictionary Entry

Dreccednys

Part of speech: -nyss, e;

Definitions

1 definitions

1 dreccednys

f. Vexation, affliction, tribulation; vexatio, afflictio, tribulātio :-- He ðære dreccednysse geswác he ceased the affliction, Homl. Th. i. 454, 28. DER. ge-dreccednys. dreccednys

Similar Words

-dállic
-deáded
-deáw
-défedlic, -défness
-démedness

Runic Inscription

ᛞᚱᛖᚳᚳᛖᛞᚾᚣᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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