Hýrsum-ness

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hýrsum-ness
f. Obedience, subjection :-- Myrcna cyninge on hýrsumnesse underþeódded syndon Merciorum regi subjectæ sunt, Bd. 5, 23; S. 646, 27. Þurh ða hýrsumnysse ðe wé heom hýrsomiaþ through the obedience with which we obey them, L. Edg. S. 1; Th. i. 272, 21. [O. E. Homl. hersamnisse: Laym. hersumnesse.]

Related words: ge-hýrsumnys. hyrsum-ness

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