For-wyrnednes

Old English Dictionary Entry

For-wyrnednes

Old English Dictionary Entry

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

Definitions

1 for-wyrnednes

f. A restraining, continence, forbidding; contĭnentia :-- He wæs micelre forhæfdnysse and forwyrnednesse lífes he was of great abstinence and continence of life, Bd. 3, 5; S. 526, 21. for-wyrnednes

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᚹᚣᚱᚾᛖᛞᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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