Sárness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sárness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 sárness

f. I. bodily pain:--On sárnysse ðú ácenst cild in dolore paries filios, Gen. 3, 16. Freoh fram deáþes sárnysse, Homl. Th. i. 76, 14. II. mental pain, affliction, grief:--Geopenige úre sárnys (the trouble arising from a pestilence) ús infær sóðre gecyrrednysse, ii. 124, 7. Gehrepod mid heortan sárnisse tactus dolore cordis, Gen. 6, 6. Hé ðis eal mid sárnesse beheóld, Ap. Th. 14, 19. Áfirsa fram him his sárnesse, 16, 14. Heu geswutelaþ módes sárnesse, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 4, 1. Helle sárnyssa mé beeodon, and ic on mínre gedréfednysse Drihten clypode, Homl. Th. ii. 86, 17. Ðæt beóþ ða angin, hé cwæð, ðara sárnessa . . . ða sorga and ða sárnessa de on woruld becumaþ, Wulfst. 89, 11-14. sar-ness,sarness

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ᛋᚪᚱᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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