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sárness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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sárness, e; f.
bodily pain
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  • On sárnysse ðú ácenst cild

    in dolore paries filios,

      Gen. 3, 16.

  • Freoh fram deáþes sárnysse,

      Homl. Th. i. 76, 14.
mental pain, affliction, grief
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  • Geopenige úre sárnys (

    the trouble arising from a pestilence

    ) ús infær sóðre gecyrrednysse, ii.
      124, 7.

  • Gehrepod mid heortan sárnisse

    tactus dolore cordis,

      Gen. 6, 6.

  • Hé ðis eal mid sárnesse beheóld,

      Ap. Th. 14, 19.

  • Áfirsa fram him his sárnesse, 16, 14.

    Heu

    geswutelaþ módes sárnesse,
      Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 4, 1.

  • Helle sárnyssa mé beeodon, and ic on mínre gedréfednysse Drihten clypode,

      Homl. Th. ii. 86, 17.

  • Ðæt beóþ ða angin, hé cwæð, ðara sárnessa . . . ða sorga and ða sárnessa de on woruld becumaþ,

      Wulfst. 89, 11-14.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sárness.” 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/26442.

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