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incitement, cause of strong feeling
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  • Þám tímum þe mé ǽnig onbrerdnes cym[e] be ðám ǽcan lýfe

    at those times in which l am inspired with any strong emotion about the life eternal,

      Solil. H. 25, 17.
strongly excited feeling
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  • Sceole wé him bringan twá turtlan, þæt is twifealdlic onbryrdnes eges and lufe,

      Hml. Th. i. 140, 16.
  • Symeon hine genam on his earmas mid micelre onbryrdnesse,

      136, 17.
  • Gebǽd heó hí tó Gode mid mycelre onbryrdnesse,

      Hml. S. 7, 320: 26, 116.
  • Hé him mynster árǽrde mid munuclicere onbryrdnesse (with all the fervour of a monk), Hml. Th. ii. 504, 20. II a. where the feeling is one of sorrow or regret, compunction :-- Ðá sió anbryrdnes hine álét

    cum compunctionis tempus abscessit,

      Past. 423, 15.
  • Mid andbryrdnysse

    (compunctione)

    synna andettan,
      Ll. Th. ii. 174, 1.
  • Mid wópe and onbryrdnysse þancunge dón,

      Hml. S. 30, 382.
  • Mid onbryrdnysse and behreówsunge hine gebiddan,

      Hml. Th. 430. 5.
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