Tó-worpenness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tó-worpenness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -worpedness, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 tó-worpenness

f. Desolation, destruction :-- Heora tóworpennys the destruction of the Jews by the Romans, Homl. Th. i. 108, 3. Ða onsceonunge ðære tóworpennysse abominationem desolationis, Mt. Kmbl. 24, 15. Tóworpednysse (-worpenuysse, MS. A. ), Mk. 43, 14. Ðeós tódrǽfednys (the driving the money-changers out from the temple) getácnode ða tóweardan tóworpennysse ðurh ðone Rómániscan here, Homl. Th. i. 406, 9. Ðæt se Hǽlend beweópe ðære ceastre tóworpennysse, ðe gelamp æfter his ðrowunge, 402, 7: Homl. Ass. 46, 548. to-worpenness

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚩ-ᚹᚩᚱᛈᛖᚾᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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