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ge-swencednes

  • noun [ feminine ]
  • verb
  • participle
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ge-swencednes, -swincednes, -swenctnes, -nis, -nys, -ness, -niss, -nyss, e; f. [geswencan, pp. of geswencan to disturb, trouble, afflict]
Sorrow, affliction, tribulation; afflictio, tribŭlātio
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  • Hí fórecómon me on ðæge geswencednysse mínre

    prævenērunt me in die afflictiōnis meæ,

      Ps. Spl. 17, 21: Homl. Th. ii. 456, 11.
  • Æfter ðære geswencednysse

    post tribŭlātiōnem illam,

      Mk. Bos. 13, 24: Ps. Spl. 54, 2.
  • For ðam hwílwendlícum geswenctnessum [MS. e]

    for the temporal afflictions;

    temporales adflictiones,
      Bd. 4, 9; S. 577, 12.
  • Nán ðyssera geswencednyssa ne becom on ðam ende ðæs eardes ðe ðæt godes folc on eardode

    none of these afflictions came into that part of the country in which the people of God dwelt,

      Homl. Th. ii. 192, 25.
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v.  ge-swincednes.
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  • ge-swencednes, n.; v.; part.