For-weorþenes

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-ness, e;

for-weorþenes
f. A coming to nothing, perishing, ruin; intĕrĭtus :-- Ðis wæs swíðe gedeorfsum geár hér on lande and þurh orfcwealm and wæstma forweorþenesse this was a very grievous year in the land, both through murrain of cattle and perishing of fruits. Chr. 1103; Erl. 239, 3.

Related words: for-wordenes. for-weorþenes

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