Nídþearf-ness
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - nídþearf-ness
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- nídþearf-ness
- I. add :-- Neádendre neádþea[r]fnesse tó wræcsíðiende cogente necessitate peregrinandi, An. Ox. 269. I a. what is unavoidable :-- Neádþear[f]nysse débitum (naturae), An. Ox. 1987. II. add: where there is idea of want :-- Hí wǽron gefédde mid þaes gecyndes neádþearfnysse (with what is needed by nature) . . . ꝥ is mid þám wyrtum þe on þám wéstene weóxon, Hml. S. 23 b, 130: 153. Hé cwæð þæt hé ðá sceolde swíðlíce befrínan his nýdþearfnysse (memento ut modo quicquid opus habes me interroges, Vit. Cuth. c. 28), Hml. Th. ii. 152, 8. III. add :-- Gif hwilc man on micelre neádþearfnesse, biþ þín gemyndig . . . ic gefremme þæs mannes nédþearfnesse, Shrn. 77, 6-9. nidþearf-ness,nidþearfness