Ofer-sewenness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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ofer-sewenness

f. Contempt; as a legal term, fine for disobedience to authority. The word occurs only in legal documents. In the laws of Henry I it corresponds to ofer-hírness in the Anglo-Saxon laws :-- Habeat episcopus debita transgressionum et poenam delictorum quae nos dicimus ofersegeneisse (quae Anglice dicitur oferisæwenes, ii. 240, 22) et gyltwíte, C. D. vi. 240, 35. II. ofer-sewenness

Related words: ofer-seón;