Grimnes

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - grimnes

According to the Old English Dictionary:

grimnes
Add :-- Grimnes atrocitas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 2, 38. I. fierceness, ferocity of a living creature :-- Þǽra feónda grimnes, Wlfst. 186, 18. Byrenre grimnysse ursine ferocitatis, An. Ox. 1477. II. severity of pain, disease, &c. :-- Mid swíþre wealreówre grimnysse satis crudescente (poenarum) atrocitate, An. Ox. 4714. For þǽre grimnesse þára ómena, Lch. ii. 278, 13. [O. L. Ger. grimnussi seueritas.]

Related words: wæl-grimnes. grimnes

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