Weorold-sorh

Old English Dictionary Entry

Weorold-sorh

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 weorold-sorh

gen. -sorge; f. Worldly care, care of this life:-- Hwonon wurde ðú mid ðissum woruldsorgum ðus swíþe geswenced ? . . . Gewítaþ nú, áwirgede woruldsorga, of mínes þegenes móde, Bt. 3, 1 ; Fox 4, 20-23. Ðæt gemearr ðære woruldsorga curarum secularium impedimentum, Past. 51; Swt. 401, 21. Bæd heó ðæt heó móste weoruldsorge and gýmenne forlǽtan postulans ut saeculi euros relinquere permitteretur, Bd. 4. 19 ; S. 587, 38. weorold-sorh

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛇᚱᚩᛚᛞ-ᛋᚩᚱᚻ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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