Un-gesceádwísness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-gesceádwísness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 un-gesceádwísness

f. Unreasonableness, foolishness :-- Hwæt segst ðú ðæt sié forcúþre ðonne sió ungesceádwísnes? hwí geþafiaþ hí ðæt hí bióð dysige? hwí nyllaþ hí spyrigan æfter cræftum and æfter wísdóme? quid enervatius ignorantiae caecitate? an sectanda noverunt? Bt. 36, 6; Fox 180, 31, 35. Hé lǽt his mód tóflówan on ðæet ofdele giémeliéste and ungesceádwísnesse æfter eallum his willum anima neglectam se inferius per desideria expandit, Past. 39; Swt. 283, 15. un-gesceadwisness

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛖᛋᚳᛖᚪᛞᚹᛁᛋᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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