For-spildness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-spildness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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for-spildness
f. Destruction, perdition :-- Þý lǽs hit gelumpe ꝥ hé sylfa æfter þon eall geeóde in mycele forspildnysse (-spildnyssum, -spilnisse, -spillednysse, ) ne ipse postmodum in immane praecipitium totus iret, Gr. D. 95, 24. Seó nǽdre sende hí selfe in forspildnesse (in praecipitium), 211, 24. v. for-spild. for-spildness

Related words: ll.

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