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tiberness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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tiberness, e; f.
Sacrifice, destruction, immolation
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  • Rǽde on his bócum hwelce tibernessa ǽgðer ge on monslihtum ge on hungre ge on scipgebroce

    let him read in his books what sacrifices of life there were by slaughter, famine, and shipwreck (the Latin, which is not closely followed, has qui caedem didicerunt ),

      Ors. 1, 11; Swt. 50, 18.
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  • tiberness, n.