Niþerung
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - niþerung
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- niþerung
- f. I. a bringing low, humiliation, overthrow :-- Ic salde iów mæhte hénnisse l niþrunge ofer nedre dedi vobis potestatem calcandi supra serpentes, Lk. Skt. Rush. 10, 19. Ǽttrige niþerungevenenata detrimenta, Hpt. Gl. 450, 39. II. damnation, condemnation :-- Niþrung damnatio, Lk. Skt. Lind. 23, 40 : 24, 20. Hé hí fram yrmþurn écre niþerunge generede, Bd. 4, 13 ; S. 582, 26 : 5, 13; S. 633, 14. In niþrunge in condemnatione, Rtl. 24, 19. For ðæs dæges nyþerunge ad damnationem diei, L. Ecg. P. add. 22; Th. ii. 236, 4 : Bd. 5, 14; S. 635, 2. [O. H. Ger. nidarunga damnatio : cf. Icel. niðran degradation.] niþerung