Twǽming
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - twǽming
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- twǽming
- f. I. division, separation, severing the connection between objects:--Nis seó godcundnys gemenged tó ðære menniscnysse, ne ðǽr nán twǽming nys . . . Hé (Christ) þurhwunaþ on ánum háde untótwǽmed, Homl. Th. i. 40, 24-30. Ðǽr (at the last day) biþ seó twǽming rihtwísra manna and árleásra, 616, 28. Twǽming (separation of man and wife) is álýfed ðám ðe lufiaþ swíðor ða heálícan clǽnnysse ðonne ða hohfullan gálnysse, ii. 324, 3. Bið ús sélre ðæt wé his flǽsc-lícan lufe fram ús áceorfon, and mid twǽminge (by separation from him) áwurpon, i. 516, 11. Úre Drihten forbeád ða yfelan twǽmincge betwux twám ǽwum, ii. 322, 32. II. separation, distinction:--Hé cwæð 'ðæs lifigendan Godes' for twǽminge ðæra leásra goda he said 'the living God' to distinguish him from the false gods, Homl. Th. i. 366, 19. twæming