Weorold-sceamu

Old English Dictionary Entry

Weorold-sceamu

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 weorold-sceamu

f. Worldly shame, disgrace among men:-- Wála ðære woruldscame, ðe nú habbaþ Engle. . . . Oft twégen sǽmen oððe þrý drífaþ ða dráfe cristenra manna fram sǽ tó sǽ. . . ús eallum tó woruldscame, Wulfst. 163, 3-7. Ða ðe for ege oððe lufe oððe ǽnigre worldscame eargiaþ and wandiaþ Godes riht tó sprecanne, 191, 5. For woruldsceame, L. I. P. 12 ; Th. ii. 320, 22. Gif wíf be óðrum were forlicge, and hit open weorðe, geweorðe heó tó woruldsceame hire sylfre, L. C. S. 54; Th. i. 406, 7. Tó woroldscame, Wulfst. 168, 14, [Æfter muchel weorldscome (worliche same, 2nd MS.) wurðscipe, Laym. 8323.] weorold-sceamu

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛇᚱᚩᛚᛞ-ᛋᚳᛠᛗᚢ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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