Neádung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Neádung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: next word. neadung

Definitions

1 neádung

f. Force or violence used against any one, compulsion, necessity :-- Ðeós neádung haec vis, Ælfc. Gl. 9, 29; Som. 11, 62. Of ðisum leahtre (gítsung) beóþ ácennede reáflác, stala, unmǽþlic neádung, Homl. Th. ii. 220, 12. Hé nolde geniman ús neádunge of deófles anwealde, i. 26, 30. Hine betellan swilce hé neádunge gefremode ðæt fácn to excuse himself, as if he committed that crime of necessity, H. R. 105, 26. Neádunge vim, Hpt. Gl. 435, 70. [Icel. nauðung compulsion.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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