Wídgilness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wídgilness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 wídgilness

f. Vastness, spaciousness, vast expanse :-- Hí him menigfeald þing sǽdon be ðære wídgilnysse ðæs wéstenes. Guthl. 3; Gdwin. 20, 16. Seó eorðe stód mid manegum wudum on hire wídgilnysse. Hexam. 6; Norm. 12, 5. Ða díglan wídgilnysse abstrusam vastitatem, Hpt. Gl. 471, 70. Behealdaþ ða wídgilnesse and ða fæstnesse and ða hrædlérnesse ðisses heofenes respicite coeli spatium, firmitudinem, celeritaíem, Bt. 32, 2; Fox 116, 5. Wé beóð ful swyfte tó farenne geond ealle wídgylnyssa (vast expanses) Godes ríces, Homl. Th. ii. 296, 34. v. wídgalness. widgilness

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ᚹᛁᛞᚷᛁᛚᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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