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up-áhafenness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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up-áhafenness, e; f.
Uplifting, elevation.
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  • Up-áhafenes handa mínra

    eleuatio manuum mearum,

      Ps. Lamb. 140, 2.
  • Seó symbelnyss ðære hálgan róde upáhefennysse,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 399.
metaphorical,
exaltation
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  • Drihten ys mín upáhafenys

    Dominus exaltatio mea,

      Ex. 17, 15.
  • His mód bið áfédd mid ðære smeáunga ðære wilnunga óðerra monna hiérnesse and his selfes upáhæfenesse,

      Past. 8; Swt. 55, 6.
exultation
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  • Welerum upáhafennysse

    labiis exultationis,

      Ps. Spl. 62, 6.
arrogance, pride
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  • Hwæt is ðonne forcúðre ðonne sió upáhæfennes (-hæfenes, Hatt. MS.)? ... Hwæt mæg hiérre bión ðonne sió sóðe eáðmódnes?

    quid elatione dejectius ... Quid humilitate sublimius?

      Past. 41; Swt. 300, 18.
  • Ðá wæs gehroren sió upáhæfenes Paulus,... and sóna æfter ðæm hryre ðære upáhaefennesse hé ongan timbran eáðmódnesse,

      58; Swt. 443, 29.
  • Hér is úres módes upáhafennes; ac ðǽr is ðære þýstro dymnes,

      L. E. I. proem.; Th. ii. 394, 12.
  • Élc upáhafenes

    omnis arrogans

    (cf. 242),
      Kent. Gl. 547.
  • Ðonne ðæt mód ðenceþ gegrípan him tó upáhæfenesse (-hef-,

      Hatt. MS.) ða eáðmódnesse, Past. 8; Swt. 54, 12.
  • For gilpe and for upáhafenesse

    elationis intentione,

      9; Swt. 55, 21.
  • For his (

    Haman

    ) upáhafennysse,
      Homl. Ass. 96, 135.
  • Ða upáhafenesse (

    Nebuchadnezzar's

    ) God getǽlde,
      Past. 4; Swt. 39, 20.
  • Upáhefenysse

    insolentiam, superbiam,

      Hpt. Gl. 526, 73.
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v. up-áhefedness, -hefness.
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v.  á-hafenness up-áhefedness up-hafenness.
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