Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-drehtness

Part of speech: e; Related words: l.

Definitions

1 definitions

1 ge-drehtness

f. Affliction, contrition :-- Hé on swá micelre þrǽstnesse (gedrehtnessum, ) and forhæfednesse módes and líchaman áheardode in tanta mentis et corporis coniritione duravit, Bd. 5, 12; Sch. 615, 3. ge-drehtness

Similar Words

-gal
-gale (-a)
-galness
-gangendlic
-gealla

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛞᚱᛖᚻᛏᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bd.: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)

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