Leóhtmód-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Leóhtmód-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 leóhtmód-ness

f. Lightness of mind, want of gravity or steadiness, levity, frivolity, inconstancy :-- Gif ǽresð se wyrtruma biþ forcorfen ðæt is sió leóhtmódnes ... Mon hine bewarige wið ða leóhtmódnesse ... Paulus cwæþ 'Wéne gé nú ðæt ic ǽnigre leóhtmódnesse brúce' ... hé ðære leóhtmódnesse unþeáwes nánwuht næfde cum prius radicem levitatis abscidunt ... Mentis levitas caveatur ... Paulus dicit 'Numquid levitate usus sum?' ... levitatis vitio non succumbo, Past. 42, 3; Swt. 308, 2-11: 32, 2; Swt, 215, 2: 33, 6; Swt. 225, 12. For hira leóhtmódnesse levitate cogitationum, 42, 1; Swt. 305, 17. [Cf. O. H. Ger. líht-móti levitas.] leohtmod-ness

Runic Inscription

ᛚᛖᚩᚻᛏᛗᚩᛞ-ᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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