Sóftness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sóftness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 sóftness

f. Softness, ease; in a bad sense, luxury, effeminacy:--Heora fela wǽron mid olfendes hǽrum tó líce gescrýdde, and ðǽr láðode sóftnys, Homl. Th. ii. 506, 24. Mid sóftnysse and mid yfelum lustum, i. 270, 5: Homl. As. 15, 59. Ða ðe ðǽr (in heaven) singaþ ne swincaþ on ðam sange, ac mid sóftnysse bútan geswince hí heriaþ ðone Hǽlend, 43, 470. Sóftnysse luxuriam, Germ. 401, 19. soft-ness,softness

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ᛋᚩᚠᛏᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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