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leásung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
leásung, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§373; §615;
Leasing, lying, vain or frivolous speech, fiction, false witness, falsehood, falseness, hypocrisy, deception, deceitfulness, artice
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  • Leásung vel faam famfaluca

    (Ital. fanfaluca, a whim, trifle, and see Ducange, s. v.),

    • Ep. Gl. 9 d, 12
      • .

  • Leásung ðissa woruldwelena

    fallacia divitiarum,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 13, 22.

  • Leásung

    falsitas,

    • Rtl. 37, 31
      • .

  • Heóra leásung wæs gecyrred tó heom sylfum

    mentita est iniquitas sibi,

    • Ps. Th. 26, 14
      • .

  • Ðæs forwyrd and leásung and forleornung swíðe raþe cymþ tó him ðe hé hine sylfne déþ tó ðon ðe hé nis

    for this reason destruction and lying and error come quickly to him, that he makes himself out what he is not,

    • Blickl. Homl. 183, 34
      • .

  • Sóðfæstnysse feóung and seó lufu líges and leásunge

    odium veritatis amorque mendacii,

    • Bd. 1, 14
      • ;
    • S. 482, 24.

  • Nebulonis

    heowunga;

    fallacis

    scúan ł leásunge,

    • Hpt. Gl. 459, 14
      • .

  • Hé nǽfre nóht leásunga ne ídeles leóþes wyrcean ne mihte

    nihil unquam frivoli et supervacui poematis facere potuit,

    • 4, 24
      • ;
    • S. 596, 52
      • .

  • Fulle mið leásunge

    pleni hypocrisi,

    • Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 23, 28
      • .

  • Ne beó ðú leás gewita. Ðis bebod wiðcweþ leásunge

    'Thou shall not be a false witness.' This commandment forbids leasing-making [cf. Scott. 'leasing-making the crime of uttering falsehood against the king to the people or vice versa ],

    • Homl. Th. ii. 208, 27
      • .

  • Ða Judéiscan noldon gehýran Cristes sóðfæstnysse, forðan ðe hí wǽron áfyllede mid heora fæder leásunge,

    • 226, 24
      • .

  • Ðonne glád ðæt deófol út mid his leásunge swá swá smýc æt his eágdura

    then the devil by his artifice stepped out at his eye in the form of smoke,

    • Shrn. 52, 33
      • .

  • Wrec ðé gemetlíce ðy læs ðe men [man?] leásunga teó ðæt ðú ðíne cysts cýðe

    revenge thyself in moderation, lest the charge be falsely made, that thou display thy virtues,

    • Prov. Kmbl. 46
      • .

  • Leásunga

    frivola,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 34, 55
      • .

  • Leásunga

    factiones,

    • Hpt. Gl. 472, 3
      • .

  • Leásunga

    lenonum,

    • 500, 55
      • .

  • On leásungum

    in mendaciis,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 32, 29
      • .

  • Se hlísa ðe hé ǽr mid leásungum wilnode

    the reputation (of philosopher) that he had before desired under false pretences,

    • Bt. 18, 4
      • ;
    • Fox 68, 5
      • .

  • Nelle wé eác mid leásungum þyllíc líccetan,

    • Homl. Skt. pref. 49
      • .

  • Leásingum beswicen ðæt hé wéneþ furþon ðæt hé man ne sý

    [so] deceived by false notions that he thinks even that he is not man,

    • Blickl. Homl. 179, 5
      • :
    • Elen. Kmbl. 2243
      • ;
    • El. 1123.

  • For ðínum leásungum

    on account of thy falsehoods,

    • Cd. 214
      • ;
    • Th. 268, 28
      • ;
    • Sat. 62
      • .

  • Ðú fordést ða ðe symle leásinga specaþ

    thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing

    • [A.V.], Ps. Th. 5, 5.

  • Onscúna ðú á leásunga,

    • L. Ælf. 44
      • ;
    • Th. i. 54, 14
      • :
    • Homl. Th. ii. 482, 25
      • .

  • Fácen and leásunga from úrum heortum ádoon

    to remove deceit and falseness from our hearts,

    • Blickl. Homl. 95, 27
      • .

  • Þurh áðbrycas and þurh weddbrycas and þurh mistlíce leásunga,

    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. l09, 151
      • .

  • Búton ðú forlǽte ða leásinga, weohweorðinga,

    • Exon. 68 a
      • ;
    • Th. 253, 13
      • ;
    • Jul. 179
      • :
    • Elen. Kmbl. 1375
      • ;
    • El. 689
      • .

  • Ðyllíce leásunga hí worhton and míhton eáþe secgan sóþsped gif him ða leásunga nǽron swétran,

    • Bt. 35, 4
      • ;
    • Fox 162, 14
      • :
    • 38, 1
      • ;
    • Fox 196, 8
      • .
Etymology
[
Prompt. Parv. leesynge mendacium; lesynge nuga
:
Icel. lausung lying, falsehood.
]
Linked entries
v.  bisleásung.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “leásung.” 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/21310.

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