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on-tendness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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on-tendness, e; f.
a burning, fire
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  • Hé hét gearcian ða tunnan tó heora bærnette . . . Hí wurdon gebrohte tó ðám tunnum and tó ðære ontendnysse,

      Homl. Skt. i. 4, 307.

  • Ontendnyssa

    incendia,

      Hpt. Gl. 499, 42.

  • Antendnyssum

    globis,

      489, 68.

  • Ontyndnissum

    incendiis,

      440, 4.
metaph.
fire, that which kindles passion
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  • Eugenia cwæþ ðæt heó wǽre gálnysse ontendnyss,

      Homl. Skt. 2, 173.
passion, vehement desire
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  • Ðære forligerlícere ontendnysse

    adulterinae titillationis,

      Hpt. Gl. 505, 68.

  • Ontyndnysse,

      520, 33.

  • Hé uneáðe ðære líchamlícan ontendnysse wiðstandan mihte,

      Homl. Th. ii. 156, 26.Geangsumod mid ðæra ormǽtan ontendnysse and hrýmande ... 'Forgif mé ðam men ðe mín mód mé tó spenþ, Homl. Skt. i. 3, 387: 3, 397.

  • Ic on ðé ádwesce ealle ontendnysse,

      4, 171.
burning sensation, inflammation
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  • He unscrýdde hine ealne, and wylode hine sylfne on ðám þiccum bremlum and þornum and netelum ... and swá þurh ðære hýde wunda ádwæscte his módes wunda; for ðan ðe hé áwende ðone unlust tó sárnysse, and þurh ða ýttran ontendnysse ácwencte ða inran,

      Homl. Th. ii. 156, 27-33.
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v.  -tendness on-tyndness.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-tendness.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/24788.

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  • on-tendness, n.

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