Ge-dreccednes

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-dreccednes

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-dreccednes
Add: ge-drecednes. (1) tribulation, trouble :-- Earfoðlic is tó átellanne seó gedrecednes. . . and ꝥ geswinc . . . þe eall Engla here dreáh. Chr. 1056 ; P. 186, 32. Gyt weorþeð máre . . . wracu and gedrecednes, Wlfst. 91, 7. Ðá sǽde hé þæt swilce earloð-nessa and swylce gedrecednessa sculan geweorðan swilce nǽfre ǽr ne gewurdan (erit tribulatio magna qualis non fuit ah initio mundi usque modo, Mt. 24, 21), 81, 3. Gedrecednessum (gedrecenyssum, Hpt. Gl. 409, 61) afflictionibus, i. tribulationibus, An. Ox. 149. (2) physical ill-treatment, torture :-- Grimlic gedrecednys (gedrecenys, Hpt. Gl. 499, 24) atrox uexatio, i. punitio (lictorum), An. Ox. 3948. (3) trouble in a medical sense :-- Wiþ geswel and wið fótádle and wið gehwylce gedrecednessa, Lch. i. 322, l. ge-dreccednes
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