Un-gleáwness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - un-gleáwness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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un-gleáwness
f. Want of understanding, unskilfulness, foolishness, blindness (fig.) :-- Unglædnes (-glǽwnes?) imperitia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 46, 25. Sió ungleáwnes biþ on ðé selfum, ðæt ðú hit ne canst on riht gecnáwan,Bt. 39, 10; Fox 226, 33. Ongleáwnis imperitia, Scint. 5, 5. [Un]gleáwnysse rusticitatis, Hpt. Gl. 529, 16. Hé nǽfre for his unglaunesse (ungleáwnesse, MS. T.) and for his unscearpnesse ða ðénunge on riht geleornian mihte nullatenus propter ingenii tarditatem potuit ministerium discere, Bd. 5, 6; S. 620, 7. Of ungleáunesse imperitia (os stultorum pascitur imperitia, Procaecitatem cordis, Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 3, 5. un-gleawness

Related words: 15, 14), Kent. Gl. 520. Ungleównise heartæs

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