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on-ginness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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on-ginness, e; f.
A beginning, undertaking
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  • Onginnissum

    inceptis,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 26.
  • Hine hét ðæt hé ðám hálwendan ongynnessum georne befulge

    eum coeptis insistere salutaribus jussit,

      Bd. 5, 19; S. 637, 11.
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v.  -ginness.
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  • on-ginness, n.