Un-gleáwness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-gleáwness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: 15, 14), Kent. Gl. 520. Ungleównise heartæs

Definitions

1 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

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛚᛖᚪᚹᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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