Wafung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wafung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: two following words

Definitions

1 wafung

f. I. glossing spectaculum. :-- Wafung spectaculum, Wrt. Voc. i. 55, 44. On openre wafunge (the passage is: Martyres in Circi spectaculo cuparum gremiis includuntur, Ald. 48), Hpt. Gl. 488, 71. Wafunge spectaculum (mirum mundo spectaculum exhibuit, Ald. 62), 509, 33. II. amazement, wonder, astonishment :-- On ðære gesihðe hine gestód wundorlíc wafung . . . eall hé wæs ful wundrunge and wafunge, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 501-509. Him an gefór swíðlíc wafung on swá wuldorfæstan wuldre, ii. 23b, 691. Ðá arn ðæt folc tó for wafunge, i. 12, 206. Hit hí mid swá mycelre fyrhto and wafunge (tanto stupore) geslóh, Bd. 4, 7 ; S. 575, 7. Hí sceáwodon ðæt heáfod mid swíðlícre wafunge, Homl. Ass. 112, 331 : Jud. 16, 25. God hæfþ geéced mínne ege and míne wafunga stuporem meum Deus exaggerat, Bt. 39, 2; Fox 214, 1.

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