Wódness
Dizionario Anglo-Sassone Inglese Antico di Bosworth & Toller - wódness
Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:
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- f. I. madness, fury, frenzy, rage :-- Wódnys rabies, Wrt. Voc. i. 45, 71: 75, 58, Ðá geáxode se cyning be ðam witseócum menn, hú se apostol hine fram ðære wódnysse áhredde, Homl. Th. i. 458, 9. Wurdon áflígde deófla fram mannum, ða ðe on wódnysse ǽr wǽron gedrehte, Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 199. Hé of his gewitte wearð, and hine se feónd swýþe swencte mid ðære wódnysse, Guthl. 12 ; Gdwin. 56, 15. Ðæt wíf wearð mid máran wódnysse (with greater fury) ástyrod. Homl. Th. ii. 30, 15 : Homl. Ass. 72, 170. His sáwul is ðurh deófol gedreht; him is neód ðæt hé his ágene wódnysse tócnáwe, Homl. Th. ii. 110, 29. On wódnessum l gewytlýstum leásum in insanias falsas, Ps. Lamb. 39, 5. Wodnyssa and réðnyssa furias atque ferocia, Hymn. Surt. 132, 18. II. blasphemy, wódnys wearð gewrecen ðurh God, Homl. Ass. 60, 212. [Wodnesse insania, furia, furor, Prompt. Parv. 531: Chauc. woodnesse : O. H. Ger. wuotnessa demeutia.] wodness