Wóhness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wóhness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: 143, 23. On wðnyssum

Definitions

1 wóhness

f. I. crookedness (lit. or fig. ), a crooked place :-- Ic gerihte sume wóhnysse dirigo, Ælfc. Gr. 28, 5 ; Zup. 173, 9. Ealle wóhnyssa beóð gerihte erwni prava in directa (Is. 40, 4), Homl. Th. i. 360, 33. II. wrongdoing, iniquily, perversity, depravity, wickedness :-- Heora wóhnys on ðam regole his rihtwisnysse aetspearn. Homl. Th. ii. 158, 10. Ic wæs on wónysse geeácnod in iniquitatibus conceptus sum, Bd. I. 27; S. 495, 24. Fram langre wónesse and ungesǽlignysse álýsde a longa iniquitate atque infelicitate liberatam, 2, 15 ; S. 519, 10. Wónessa iniquitales, Bd. 5, 13; S. 633, 38: Blickl. Homl. 107, 24. Heora wóhnyssa forgyfennys, Homl. Ass. 136, 668. Ǽlc ðæra wónessa (crimes) ðe tó ǽnigre bóte gebyrie, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. in iniquitatibus, Bd. l, 27; S. 495, 25. Gif hie on ǽnigum dǽle wólíce libban heora líf, sýn hié from heora wónessum onwende, and fram heora unrihtum oncyrran. Blickl. Homl. 109, 20. wohness

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ᚹᚩᚻᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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