Hohful-ness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hohful-ness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hohful-ness
Add: I. solicitude, care :-- Hohfulnesse be þingum gewītendlicum sollicitudinem de rebus transitoriis, R. Ben. I. 16, 10. Þurh mēdderne hohful[nesse] per maternam sollicitudinem, Hpt. Gl. 404, 72. II. trouble, sadness, anxiety :-- Þā eahta leahtras . . . hohfulnes (cf. se fīfta leahtor is tristitia, ꝥ is þissere worulde unrōtnyss, Hml. S. 16, 289), Wlfst. 188, 37. hohful-ness
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