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