Frécednes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Frécednes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -ness, -nyss, frǽcednys, -nyss, e; Related words: frécennes. frecednes

Definitions

1 frécednes

f. Danger, peril, hazard; perīcŭlum, discrīmen :-- Ne ða tobeótiendan frécednesse ðam eágan mennisc hand gehǽlan mihte human hand could not save the eye from the threatening danger, Bd. 4, 32; S. 611, 23. Ahred fram frécednysse saved from peril, Homl. Th. ii. 304, 30. Forðam he geþristade ðæt he hine sylfne on geweald sealde swylcere frécednysse quod se ille discrīmĭni dăre præsumpsisset, Bd. 1, 7; S. 477, 16. Frécednysse helle gemétton me perīcŭla inferni invēnērunt me, Ps. Lamb. 114, 3. He ferde fram eallum frécednyssum ðises lǽnan lífes he went from all the perils of this frail life, Homl. Th. ii. 516, 2.

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚱᛖᚳᛖᛞᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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