Snotorness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Snotorness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 snotorness

f. Prudence, wisdom, sagacity:--Prudentia, ðæt ys snoternys, Wulfst. 247, 15: Homl. Skt. i. 1, 157. Hí (the innocents) wǽron gehwǽde and ungewittige ácwealde, ac hí árísaþ on ðam gemǽnelícum dóme mid fullum wæstme and heofenlícere snoternysse, Homl. Th. i. 84, 23. Snotornesse l wísdóm sapientiam, Ps. Lamb. 48, 4. Salomon gesette þreó béc þurh his snoternesse, Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 36. snotorness

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ᛋᚾᚩᛏᚩᚱᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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