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or-wénness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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or-wénness, e; f.
Despair, hopelessness
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  • Ðonne biþ him seó orwénnys (

    desperatio illa

    ) tó máran synne geteald,
      L. Ecg. P. i. 4; Th. ii. 172, 24.
  • Hwí sprecst ðú mid swá micelre orwénnysse? Homl. Th. i. 534, 22.
  • On orwénnysse his ágenre hǽle

    in despair of his own salvation,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 24.
  • Woldon hý geteón in orwénnysse Meotudes cempan,

      Exon. Th. 136, 27; Gú. 547.
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  • or-wénness, n.