Dreccednys

Old English Dictionary Entry

Dreccednys

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -nyss, e; Related words:

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

Runic Inscription

ᛞᚱᛖᚳᚳᛖᛞᚾᚣᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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