Un-wísness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-wísness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 un-wísness

f. I. ignorance :-- Swá hwæt swá ic for unwísnesse ágylte quicquid ignorantia deliqui, Bd. 4, 29; S. 607, 29. Hí þurh unwísnesse (per ignorantiam) gesyngodon, 1, 27; Bd. 491, 29. II. wickedness :-- In ðærfum yfelgiornisse and unwísnisse in fermento malitiae et nequitiae, Rtl. 25, 19. un-wisness

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ᚢᚾ-ᚹᛁᛋᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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