Ge-hwǣdnes

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-hwǣdnes

Add: I. smallness of size or extent, slenderness :-- Īsen ūre sāwle nāteshwon byd gelǣdd to gehwǣdnysse scerpnysse (ad subtilitatem, i. exililatem acuminis), Scint. 150, 4. II. fewness of number :-- On gehwēdnesse in paucitate (plebis), Kent. Gl. 494. Gehwǣdnesse paucitatem (dierum), Bl. Gl. III. poorness, meanness of condition, mediocrity :-- Gehwǣdnys, medemlicnys mediocritas, i. paruitas, An. Ox. 2596. ge-hwædnes