Or-treowness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - or-treowness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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or-treowness
f. Want of faith or confidence, mistrust :-- Ortreownes diffidentia, desperantia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 18. Hé æteówde ða wunda ðǽm ungeleáflullum mannum, forðon ðe hé nolde ðæt ǽnig ortrýwnes wǽre embe his ǽriste, Blickl. Homl. 91, 3. or-treowness
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