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leornung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
leornung, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§216; §225; §371; §373;
Learning, study, meditation, reading
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  • Lár oððe leornung

    teaching or learning,

    • L. I. P. 8
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 314, 20
    • :
    • Past. pref
    • ;
    • Swt. 3, 10
    • .
  • Micel is tó secganne langsum leornung ðæt hé in lífe ádreág

    much is it to tell, lengthy the reading, what he in life underwent,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 2962
    • ;
    • An, 1484
    • .
  • Geleoso ðære godcundan leornunge

    studia divinæ lectionis,

    • Bd. 3, 13
    • ;
    • S. 538, 29
    • .
  • On smeáwunge and on leornunge háligra gewrita ... ðonne hí on heora leornunge wǽron and heora béc rǽddon and beeodan

    meditationi scripturarum ... cum illi intus lectioni vacabant,

    • 4, 3
    • ;
    • S. 567, 29-34
    • .
  • On leornunge úra stafa

    nostrarum lectione litterarum,

    • 5, 14
    • ;
    • S. 635, 8
    • .
  • On leornunge

    in discendo,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 18, 18
    • .
  • Gáþ út tó claustre oððe tó leorninge

    egredimini in claustrum vel in gymnasium,

    • 36, 9
    • .
  • Hí hiene niéddon tó leornunga, ðéh hé gewintred wǽre

    they compelled him to go to school, though he was an old man,

    • Ors. 6, 31
    • ;
    • Swt. 284, 21
    • .
  • liornunga óðfæste,

    • Past. pref
    • ;
    • Swt. 7, 12
    • .
  • Ðú hatodest leornunga

    to odisti disciplinam,

    • Ps. Th. 49, 18
    • .
  • Mid ða leornunga ðissa bóca

    hujus [libri] lectione,

    • Bd. 5, 18
    • ;
    • S. 636, 4.
  • Tó begangenne his leornunge

    lectioni operam dare,

    • 5, 2
    • ;
    • S. 614, 35
    • .
  • Hé micle gýminge hæfde háligra leorninga

    curam non modicam lectionibus sacris exhibebat,

    • 3, 19
    • ;
    • S. 547, 27
    • .
  • On hálgum leornungum,

    • 4, 2
    • ;
    • S. 565, 33
    • .
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. lirnunga, lernunga disciplina, industria, doctrina, lectio.
]
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  • leornung, n.