Ge-wit-leást

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-wit-leást

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -witt-leást, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 ge-wit-leást

f. Folly, madness, phrensy; stultitia :-- On ðínre gewitleáste in thy, folly, Homl. Th. i. 424, 16: Ælfc. T. Lisle 32, 24. Wið ða ádle ðe grécas frenésis nemnaþ ðæt is on úre geþeóde gewitlést ðæs módes for the disease which the Greeks call φρένησιs, that is, in our language, witlessness of the mind, Herb. 96, 4; Lchdm. i. 210, 1. ge-wit-least,ge-witleast

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚹᛁᛏ-ᛚᛖᚪᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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