Ge-cwémednes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-cwémednes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -ness, -nys, -nyss, e; Related words: ge-cwémnes. ge-cwemednes

Definitions

1 ge-cwémednes

f. Satisfaction, pleasure, contentment; beneplăcĭtum :-- Gode to gecwémednesse to the pleasure of God, L. Ælf. C. 33; Th. ii. 376, 38. Gode to gecwemednysse to God's contentment, Homl. Th. i. 180, 10.

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚳᚹᛖᛗᛖᛞᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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