For-sworennys

Old English Dictionary Entry

For-sworennys

Old English Dictionary Entry

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

Definitions

1 for-sworennys

f. [forsworen, pp. of forswerian to forswear; -nys, -nyss] False swearing, perjury; pejĕrātio, perjūrium :-- Cýpmannum gedafenaþ ðæt hi sóþfæstnysse healdon, and lofian heora þing búton láþre forsworennysse it is fitting to merchants that they hold truth, and praise their things without hateful perjury. Homl. Th. ii. 328, 9. for-sworennys

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᛋᚹᚩᚱᛖᚾᚾᚣᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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