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symbelness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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symbelness, e; f.
Festivity, solemnity
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  • Symmelnysse

    festivitate, solemnitate,

    • Hpt. Gl. 496, 17.

  • Semelnyssa

    solemnia, festivitates,

    • 500, 7.
festivity, feasting
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  • Ðǽr ðurhwunaþ seó éce bliss; ne byþ ðǽr hungor ne þurst. . ., ac háligra symbelnys ðǽr þurhwunaþ á bútan ende,

    • Wulfst. 143, 2.

  • Symbelnes,

    • Blickl. Homl. 65, 21.

  • Hwǽr beóþ ðonne ða symbelnessa and ða ídelnessa and ða ungemetlícan hleahtras?

    • 59, 17.
a religious festival or solemnity
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  • Æftersanga symbolnys

    matutinorum sollempnitas,

    • R. Ben. Interl. 43, 2.

  • In dege mérum symbelnisse (sollemnitatis) eówerre,

    • Ps. Surt. 80, 3.

  • Symelnysse,

    • Ps. Spl. 80, 3.

  • On ðære Eástorlícan tíde symbelnysse

    in ipso tempore festi Paschalis,

    • Bd. 3, 24
      • ;
    • S. 557, 40.

  • On ludéa symbelnysse ( festivitate ) wǽron geworden Drihtnes ǽfengereordu,

    • Homl. Ass. 153, 40.

  • Gérlíco symbelnise

    annua solemnitate,

    • Rtl. 49, 25.

  • Cuman tó ðære mæssan symbelnysse,

    • L. E. I. 24;
    • Th. ii. 420, 36: Bd. 1, 27;
    • S. 496, 43: 2, 4;
    • S. 505, 22.

  • Ða symbelnessa mæssena

    sollemnia missarum,

    • 4, 22;
    • S. 592, 20.
festive nature
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  • :-- Ðonne ealle dagas áteoriaþ, ðonne þurhwunaþ hé (Sunday) aa on his symbelnysse

    (

    it continues ever in its character of festival

    ),
    • Anglia viii.310, 28.
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v.  symbel symbel-calic.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “symbelness.” 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/30008.

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