Ge-swincness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-swincness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 ge-swincness

f. Tribulation, trouble, trial :-- On mínre geswinc-nysse (tribulatione) ic þé tó clypige, Guth. 28, 23. Sé þe manigfealdlice geswincnysse and earfoðnysse dreógeð qui suffért temptationem, 12, 6. Geswincnyssa l gedréfednyssa tribulationes, Ps. L. 24, 17. Of eallum geswincnyssum, 22. ge-swincness

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚹᛁᚾᚳᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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