Weorold-wrenc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Weorold-wrenc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 weorold-wrenc

m. A worldly wile, a trick of this world:-- Ða ðe woruldmonnum ðynceaþ dysige, ða geciésð Dryhten, for ðæm ðæt hé ða lytegan, ðe mid ðissum woroldwrencium bióð upáhæfene, gescende quae stulta sunt mundi, elegit Deus, ut confundat sapientes, Past. 30; Swt. 203, 24. weorold-wrenc

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛇᚱᚩᛚᛞ-ᚹᚱᛖᚾᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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