Un-gehírsumness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-gehírsumness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: un-hírness. un-gehirsumness

Definitions

1 un-gehírsumness

f. Want of submission, disobedience :-- Módignys ácenð forsewennysse and ungehýrsumnysse, Homl. Th. ii. 222, 7. (Þane stede þe se deofel of hafel þurh unihersamnesse, O. E. Homl. i. 221, 30. Cf. O. H. Ger. un-gihórsamí inobedientia.]

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛖᚻᛁᚱᛋᚢᛗᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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