ólehtung

Old English Dictionary Entry

ólehtung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: l.) occupato in multes animo adulatio valde subrepit,

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1 ólehtung

f. I. flattering, adulation :-- Þám móde, þe biþ ábysgod in manigum þingum, swíþe undercreópeð seó leáse ólehtung (liffetung, Gr. D. 35, 15. Þurh þá ólehtinga þára preósta, 40, 19. II. what pleases the senses, pleasing condition or process :-- Sóna se líchoma sceal bión unfæger, þonne hé mid unrótnesse and mid sáre áseted bið, þá cumað of þǽre (þám, MS. ) líðan ólehtunge (from a life of sensual ease) . . . Gemunað þá þe eall hira líf on þisse worulde on ólehtungum lifedon (lived in sensual pleasures), Verc. Först. 170. Eáwlá, wíf, tó hwan wenest ðú þínes líchoman hǽle mid smyringe and oftþweále and óðrum líðnessum? Of ðám cymeð unhǽlo, nales mægen. Gif þú þá ilcan ólectonge þám líchoman [dó, hit ná] híwfægere bið, þonne hit ǽr wæs, 166. olehtung

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ᚩᛚᛖᚻᛏᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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