Wéning

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wéning

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: wénunga. wening

Definitions

1 wéning

f. I. supposition, doubtful thought, doubt:--Se Godes man ne sceolde be ðan morgendæge þencean, ðý læs ðæt wǽre, ðæt hé þurh ðæt ǽnig ðara góda forylde, ðe hé ðonne ðý dæge gedón mihte, and(þurh) ða wéninge hweðer hé eft ðæs mergendæges gebídan móste the man of God ought not to think of the morrow, lest it should come to pass, that through it he should put off any of the good that he might do then on the day, and through the doubt whether he may live to see the morrow, Blickl. Homl. 213, 24. II. hope, expectation :-- Bæd heó swíþe lange ðone cyningc, ðæt hé hí forlǽte on mynstre Criste þeówian, ðæt heó ða wénunge æt nýhstan ðurhteáh (so that at last her hope was realized), Bd. 4, 19 ; S. 587, 39. III. chance :-- In woenunga forte, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 13, 29. [Aboue onderstandingge and wenynge (imagination). Ayenb. 113, 6. It is a wrongful wenynge (opinion). Chauc. Boeth. 172, 28. O. H. Ger. ana-wánunga existimatio; bi-wánunga deliberatio.]

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛖᚾᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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