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med-trum-ness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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med-trum-ness, <b>, med-trym-ness, met-trum-ness, met-trym-ness</b> e; f.
Infirmity, ill-health, sickness, illness
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  • Seó lange mettrumnes ðæs seócan mannes, ðonne hine God forlǽtan nele éþelíce lifian, ne hé swyltan ne móte,

    • Blickl. Homl. 59, 28.

  • Hwílum ofþrycþ ðone líchoman ungemetlícu mettrymnes (

    languor

    ).

    Ongeán swelce metrymnesse mon beþorfte stronges lǽcedómes ... swá hé mǽge ða mettrymnesse

    (morbum )

    mid gefliéman,

    • Past. 61, 2
      • ;
    • Swt. 455, 26-30.

  • Se ðe biscephád underféhþ hé underféhþ ðæs folces mettrymnesse

    quasi ad ægrum medicus accedit,

    • 9
      • ;
    • Swt. 59, 23.

  • Hé gefór on ðære mettrymnesse,

    • Ors. 6, 30
      • ;
    • Swt. 282, 21.

  • Ðá gehǽldon hié sum wíf of micelre medtrumnesse,

    • Shrn. 135, 16.

  • Mettrumnesse,

    • Ps. Th. 5, arg: 6, arg: 15, arg: Guthl. 20
      • ;
    • Gdwin. 82, 13.

  • Ða lǽcas cunnon heora medtrumnesse ongitan,

    • Bt. 39, 9
      • ;
    • Fox 226, 16.

  • Mettrymnysse

    infirmitates,

    • Ps. Spl. C. 15, 3.

  • Metrymnisse

    ægrotationes,

    • Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 8, 17.

  • Wíf sceolon gemunan hyra mettrumnessa and hyra hádes tyddernessa

    women must remember their infirmities and the weaknesses of their sex,

    • L. E. I. 6
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 406, 12
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “med-trum-ness.” 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/22556.

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