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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-wit-leást

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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
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚹᛁᛏ-ᛚᛖᚪᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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