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oppressiveness, burdensomeness
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  • Synna usra hefignese ué biðon áðryhto

    peccatorum nostrorum pondere premimur,

    • Rtl. 51, 23.

  • Hú ðú gehǽled beón miht fram þysse ádle hefignesse (hefi-, v. l.)

    quomodo cureris ab huius molestia langoris,

    • Bd. 3, 12
      • ;
    • Sch. 243, 16
      • .

  • Ne þincð mé nán geswinc hefig, gyf ic geseó and habbe þæt ðæt ic æfter swince. Ac se tweónung wyrcað þá hefinesse,

    • Solil. H. 26, 3
      • .

  • We béron hefignise

    (pondus)

    ðæs dæges and hǽto,

    • Mt. L. 20, 12
      • .
a trouble; a difficult matter
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  • Hú ne witon wé ꝥ nán nearewnes ne nán earfoþu ne nán unrótnes ne nán sár ne nán hefignes nis nán gesǽlð?

    nam non esse anxiam, tristemque beatitudinem, nec doloribus, molestiisque subjectam quid attinet dicere

      ?,
    • Bt. 24, 4
      • ;
    • F. 86, 21
      • .

  • Gif hwilcum bréðer ǽnig hefines . . . beóð geþeódde

    si cui fratri aliqua gravia. . . injunguntur,

    • R. Ben. I. 114, 5
      • .
oppressed condition of body or senses, want of animation, dullness
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  • Þu cwǽde ꝥ ic hæfde forgiten ꝥ gód ꝥ ic oninnan mé hæfde for ðæs lichoman hefignesse

    quod memoriam corporea contagione pressus amisi,

    • Bt. 35, 2
      • ;
    • F. 156, 16
      • .

  • Seó sául þá hwíle þe heó on þám lícuman byð ne mæg God geseón swá swá heó wilnað for þæs lícuman hefenesse and gedréfednesse,

    • Solil. H. 29, 14
      • .
disease
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  • Ðe ilca úsra untrymnise í hefignise gebær

    ipse nostras aegrotationes portavit,

    • Mt. L. 8, 17
      • .
oppression
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  • Ðreátuncg ł hefignise ðǽra byrðenra

    invitatio

    (cf. geþreátod and geníded

    invitus,

    geníddan

    invitant,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 44, 59-60)

    oneratorum,

    • Mt. p. 16, 12
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hefig-ness.” 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/52148.

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