Lustful-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Lustful-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 lustful-ness

f. Pleasure, delight, desire :-- Lustfulnes oblectamenta, Wrt. Voc. ii. 62, 49. Seó lustfulnys biþ þurh líchoman delectatio fit per carnem, Bd. 1, 27; S. 497, 13, 10, 18, 12, 30: Past. 53, 6; Swt. 417, 7, 8, 21, 24, 25. Drihten eallum geleáffulum monnum heora gong gestaþelade tó lífes wege ðæt hié mágon þurh ða lustfulnesse heora módes mid gódum dǽdum geearnian leht ðæs écan lífes the Lord established for all believers their passage to the way of life, that they may through the ardent desire of their mind earn with good deeds the light of everlasting life, Blickl. Homl. 17, 20. lustful-ness

Runic Inscription

ᛚᚢᛋᛏᚠᚢᛚ-ᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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