Old English Dictionary Entry

Wit-leást

Part of speech: e; Related words: gewit-leást. wit-least

Definitions

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f. Senselessness, folly:--His (Job's) wífes witleást (gewitleást, Homl. Th. ii. 456, 4), Job. Thw. 167, 32. [Cf. Icel. vit-leysi madness.]

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Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᛏ-ᛚᛖᚪᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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