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nearuness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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nearuness, e; f.
a strait
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  • Mid longre nearonesse be eástan Constantinopolim ligeþ

    juxta Constantinopolim longae mittuntur angustiae,

    • Ors. 1, 1
    • ;
    • Swt. 8, 21.
oppression, distress (of body)
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  • Nearones breósta

    oppression of the chest,

    • Lchdm. ii. 204, 27.
  • Ðæt ( asthma ) ys nearunyss ... and breóst byþ innen mid micle nearnysse,

    • iii. 116, 23-26.
distress (of mind), anxiety, tribulation, trouble, grief
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  • Hér is seó lǽnlíce winsumnes ac ðǽr is seó syngale nearones

    in this world is the transient delight, in the next is the perpetual distress,

    • L. E. I. introd.
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 394, 8.
  • Hú ne witon wé ðæt nán nearewnes ne nán unrótnes nis nán gesǽlþ

    nam non esse anxiam, tristemque beatitudinem quid attinet dicere?

    • Bt. 24, 4
    • ;
    • Fox 86, 20.
  • Hé on swá micelre nearanuesse becom

    he fell into so great trouble (was imprisoned),

    • 1
    • ;
    • Fox 2, 27.
  • Swá hwá swá ða flǽsclícan unþeáwas forlǽtan wile hé sceal geþolian micele nearanesse

    corporis voluptatum appetentia plena est anxietatis,

    • 31, 1
    • ;
    • Fox 110, 26.
  • Seó hreówsung ne beoþ ná bútan sorge and búton nearonesse,

    • Fox 110, 29.
  • On swá micelre módes unréto and nearonisse

    anxietate,

    • Nar. 30, 24.
  • Nearonessa

    angustia,

    • Ps. Th. 218, 243.
  • On mínum earfoþum and nearonessum

    in tribulatione,

    • 4, 1.
  • Of nearonessum heora

    de necessitatibus eorum,

    • Ps. Lamb. 106, 6.
  • Nearonessum módes

    mentis angoribus,

    • Bd. 2, 12
    • ;
    • S. 513, 33, note.
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v.  nirwett.
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