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earnung

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Dele last passage, and add:
labour to obtain something
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  • Ǽlc deáþlic man swencþ hine selfne mid mistlicum and manigfealdum ymbhogum, and þeáh willniað ealle þurh mistlice paþas cuman tó ánum ende ꝥ is ꝥ hí wilniaþ þurh ungelíce earnunga cuman tó ánre eádignesse

    omnis mortalium cura, quam multiplicium studiorum labor exercet, diverso quidem calle procedit, sed ad unum tamen beatitudinis finem nititur pervenire,

      Bt. 24, 1; F. 80, 9.
merit, desert
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  • Earnunga

    merito,

      Rtl. 42, 27.

  • Hearnunge,

      Jn. p. 7, 10.

  • For his hálgena earnunge,

      Hml. S. 23, 314: Solil. H. 1, 21.

  • Earnunga

    meritorum,

      Rtl. 39, 32.

  • Edleán heora geearnunga (earnunga,

    v. i.

    ),
      Bt. 31, 1; F. 112, 1.

  • Mid miclan earnungan wé geearnodon þá yrmða . . ., and mid swýðe miclan earnungan wé þá bóte mótan æt Gode gerǽcan,

      Wlfst. 157, 3-6.

  • Ðerh Sancti Cúðberhtes earnunga,

      Jn. p. 188, 12.
recompense
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  • Hé rít for þý þe hé mid þǽre ráde earnaþ sume earnunga,

      Bt. 34, 7; F. 144, 7.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. arnunga meritum.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “earnung.” 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/43462.

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