Æþelborenness

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

æþelborenness

Add: I. nobleness of birth, gentle birth :-- Ne teáh nan æðelborennyss nǽnne man tó wurðscype, bútan hé wísdóm leornode, Hml. S. 3, 6. Æþelborenysse stemmatis, Hy. S. 47, 14. Wǽron hí æfter æþelborennysse oferhýdige, Hml. Th. ii. 174, 8. Hé wæs æðelboren, ac hé oferstáh hís æðelborennysse mid hálgum ðeáwum, 118, 10. II. nobleness, nobility, dignity :-- 'Mycel æðelborennys bið ꝥ man bé Crístes ðeów' ... 'næbbe wé náne æþelborennysse for ðan þe wé forseóð Crístes ðeówdom' ... eówer æðelborennys becymð tó bysmorfullum hæftnéde, Hml. S. 8, 46-51. Æþelborennes generositas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 32. Hláford, úre ceaster is þearfende and ne mæg þíne æðelborennesse ácuman, Ap. Th. 9, 8: 15, 22. III. inborn nature :-- Æþelbornesse indolem, An. Ox. 4518.

Parole correlate: preceding word. æþelborenness