Stilness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Stilness

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 stilness

I. add :-- Se tíma hyra reste and stillnysse hora quietis, Gr. D. 170, 12. II. add: abstention from speech: -- For þǽre stilnesse hefignysse neoþran stefne tó sprecenne wé geþáfedon pro taciturnitatis gravitate summissa voce loquendum permisimus, Angl. xiii. 433, 970. Fífwintre stilnysse stǽrleornera quinquennem taciturnitatem stoicorum, An. Ox. 4144. III. add :-- Stilnesse quiete, An. Ox. 290. Stilnessa otia, i. quietem, 1672. stilness

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ᛋᛏᛁᛚᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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