Ge-wit-leást

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-wit-leást

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-witt-leást, e;

ge-wit-leást
f. Folly, madness, phrensy; stultitia :-- On ðínre gewitleáste in thy, folly, Homl. Th. i. 424, 16: Ælfc. T. Lisle 32, 24. Wið ða ádle ðe grécas frenésis nemnaþ ðæt is on úre geþeóde gewitlést ðæs módes for the disease which the Greeks call φρένησιs, that is, in our language, witlessness of the mind, Herb. 96, 4; Lchdm. i. 210, 1. ge-wit-least,ge-witleast
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