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Ge-dreccednes

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1 ge-dreccednes

Add: ge-drecednes. (1) tribulation, trouble :-- Earfoðlic is tó átellanne seó gedrecednes. . . and ꝥ geswinc . . . þe eall Engla here dreáh. Chr. 1056 ; P. 186, 32. Gyt weorþeð máre . . . wracu and gedrecednes, Wlfst. 91, 7. Ðá sǽde hé þæt swilce earloð-nessa and swylce gedrecednessa sculan geweorðan swilce nǽfre ǽr ne gewurdan (erit tribulatio magna qualis non fuit ah initio mundi usque modo, Mt. 24, 21), 81, 3. Gedrecednessum (gedrecenyssum, Hpt. Gl. 409, 61) afflictionibus, i. tribulationibus, An. Ox. 149. (2) physical ill-treatment, torture :-- Grimlic gedrecednys (gedrecenys, Hpt. Gl. 499, 24) atrox uexatio, i. punitio (lictorum), An. Ox. 3948. (3) trouble in a medical sense :-- Wiþ geswel and wið fótádle and wið gehwylce gedrecednessa, Lch. i. 322, l. ge-dreccednes
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ᚷᛖ-ᛞᚱᛖᚳᚳᛖᛞᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Wlfst.
Wulfstan
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