Dréfednes

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-ness, -nyss, e;

dréfednes

f. Vexation, affliction, tribulation; vexātio, afflictio, tribulātio :-- Syððon cómon [comen MS.] ealle dréfednysse [MS. dræuednysse] and ealle ifele to ðone mynstre after that all troubles and all evils came to the monastery, Chr. 1066; Erl. 203, 31. DER. ge-dréfednes. drefednes