Ge-swencednes

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-swincednes, -swenctnes, -nis, -nys, -ness, -niss, -nyss, e;

ge-swencednes
f. [geswencan, pp. of geswencan to disturb, trouble, afflict] Sorrow, affliction, tribulation; afflictio, tribŭlātio :-- Hí fórecómon me on ðæge geswencednysse mínre prævenērunt me in die afflictiōnis meæ, Ps. Spl. 17, 21: Homl. Th. ii. 456, 11. Æfter ðære geswencednysse post tribŭlātiōnem illam, Mk. Bos. 13, 24: Ps. Spl. 54, 2. For ðam hwílwendlícum geswenctnessum [MS. e] for the temporal afflictions; temporales adflictiones, Bd. 4, 9; S. 577, 12. Nán ðyssera geswencednyssa ne becom on ðam ende ðæs eardes ðe ðæt godes folc on eardode none of these afflictions came into that part of the country in which the people of God dwelt, Homl. Th. ii. 192, 25. ge-swencednes
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