Tiberness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tiberness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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tiberness
f. Sacrifice, destruction, immolation:--Rǽde on his bócum hwelce tibernessa ǽgðer ge on monslihtum ge on hungre ge on scipgebroce let him read in his books what sacrifices of life there were by slaughter, famine, and shipwreck (the Latin, which is not closely followed, has qui caedem didicerunt), Ors. 1, 11; Swt. 50, 18. tiberness
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