Grǽdignes

According to the Old English Dictionary:

grǽdignes

Add: I. covetousness, cupidity :-- Wyrtruma ys ealra yfela grǽdignyss radix est omnium malorum cupiditas, Scint. 100, 8: 111, 5: 112, 2. Ungefyllendlic eáge grǽdignysse, 110, 16: Prud. 57. Be grǽdignysse de cupiditate, Scint. 110, 3. Grǽdignyssa cupiditates (cf. honoribus aut prosperitatibus, 13-14), 111, 17. II. eager desire. (1) in a good sense :-- Þonne wé lífes word mid grǽdignysse underfóð, Hml. Th. ii. 280, 16. (2) in an unfavourable sense :-- Ealle flǽsclice grǽdignyssa mid forhæfednysse beóð forcorfene omnes carnales cupiditates abstinentia resecantur, Scint. 55, 4. grædignes