Dréfednes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Dréfednes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -ness, -nyss, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 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

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ᛞᚱᛖᚠᛖᛞᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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