Leóht-brǽdness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - leóht-brǽdness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

leóht-brǽdness
Substitute: Wantonness, levity, frivolity :-- Þonne ys se óeth;er heáfodleahter gecweden gífernes . . . of þǽre bið acenned ungesceád bliss and sceandlicnes and leóhtbrǽdnes and ídelsprǽc (inepta laetilia, scurrilitas, levitas, vaniloquium), Verc. Först. 168. Gálre leóhtbrǽdnesse petulantis lasciviae, An. Ox. 4706. Hý hý georne bewerian wið leóhtbrǽdnesse ídelra worda and unnyttra gebǽra subtrahat corpori suo de loquacitate, de scurrilitate, R. Ben. 76, 19. Uton forlǽtan . . . gálnysse and sceandlicnessa and leóhtbrǽdnessa and ídele sprǽca and ealle unclǽnnessa, Verc. Först. 167, 6. leoht-brædness
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