Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-gleáwness

Part of speech: e; Related words: 15, 14), Kent. Gl. 520. Ungleównise heartæs

Definitions

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1 un-gleáwness

f. Want of understanding, unskilfulness, foolishness, blindness (fig.) :-- Unglædnes (-glǽwnes?) imperitia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 46, 25. Sió ungleáwnes biþ on ðé selfum, ðæt ðú hit ne canst on riht gecnáwan,Bt. 39, 10; Fox 226, 33. Ongleáwnis imperitia, Scint. 5, 5. [Un]gleáwnysse rusticitatis, Hpt. Gl. 529, 16. Hé nǽfre for his unglaunesse (ungleáwnesse, MS. T.) and for his unscearpnesse ða ðénunge on riht geleornian mihte nullatenus propter ingenii tarditatem potuit ministerium discere, Bd. 5, 6; S. 620, 7. Of ungleáunesse imperitia (os stultorum pascitur imperitia, Procaecitatem cordis, Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 3, 5. un-gleawness

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Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛚᛖᚪᚹᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Bt.: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox: Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Mk.: Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies

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