Wilnung,e

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wilnung,e

f. Desire :-- Ūþwitan secgaþ dæt sió sāwul hæbbe drió gecynd. Ān dara gecynda is dæt heó biþ wilnigende . . . Twā dara gecynda habbaþ nētenu ; . . . ōþer dara is wilnung . . . Seó gesceádwīsnes sceal wealdan dære wilnunga, Bt. 33, 4; Fox 132, 3-10: Met. 20, 186. Worldlīce wilnung desiderium mundanum, L. Ecg. P. i. 5 ; Th. ii. 174, 10. Fram gebrosnucge līcumlīcre willnunge clǣne a corruptione con-cupiscentiae carnalis inmune, Bd. 3, 8 ; S. 532, 36. Unālȳfedre willnunge mōd biþ geþeóded, I. 27; S. 495, 9. Unrihtes willan willnunge cupidine voluptatis, 495, 33. Sum hlāw, done men for feós wilnunga gedulfon, Guthl. 4 ; Gdwin. 26, 6. Ābisgod on disse worulde willnunga (wilnunga, ), Bt. 41, 3; Fox 246, 31. For dære wilnunge (gewil-nunge, v. l. ) de hē wolde hȳ him on fultum geteón ambitione habendorum equitum Thessalorum, quorum robur ut exercitui suo admiscerit, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 59, 14. Hē nōhwæþere heora willnunge habban ne durhteón magan in neutro cupitum possunt obtinere propositum, Bd. 5, 23; S. 647, 2. Drihten gehȳrd da wilnunga his þearfena desiderium pauperum exaudivit Dominus, Ps. Th. 9, 37. Willniungum petitionibus. Mt. Kmbl. p. 14, 20. [Þuruh wilnunge of hereword, A. R. 148, 20. Worsipe haue þon for þine wilninge, Laym. 3160.] v. ge-, ungemet-, unriht-, weorold-wilnung. wilnung

Related words: l.