Heorcnung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Heorcnung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: hearcnung, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 heorcnung

f. Hearkening, listening, hearing, power of hearing :-- Wé sceolon úre eáran fram yfelre heorcnunge áwendan we must turn away our ears from evil listening, Homl. Th. i. 96, 23: ii. 564, 4: Ælfc. Gr. 1; Som. 2, 29. Hé forgeaf deáfum heorcnunge he gave to the deaf hearing, Homl. Th. i. 26, 13: ii. 16, 13. Hearcnunge, H. R. 7, 14. Drihten ic gehýrde heorcnunge ðíne Domine audivi auditionem tuam, Cant. Abac. Lamb. fol. 189, 2. heorcnung

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ᚻᛇᚱᚳᚾᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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