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a-solcennys

  • noun [ feminine ]
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a-solcennys, -nyss, e ; f.
Idleness, sloth, slothfulness, sluggishness, laziness; ignavia, desidia, pigritia
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  • Heora líðnys is asolcennys and nýtennys

    their mildness is sloth and ignorance,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 46, 11 : 220, 21
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  • Se sixta heáfodleáhter is asolcennyss

    the sixth chief sin is slothfulness,

    • 218, 22
    • .
  • Þurh úre asolcennysse

    through our sluggishness,

    • Th. Diplm. A. D. 970; 240, 12
    • :
    • Homl. Th. i. 602, 8
    • .
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