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snotorness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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snotorness, e; f. Prudence, wisdom, sagacity
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  • Prudentia, ðæt ys snoternys,

      Wulfst. 247, 15: Homl. Skt. i. 1, 157.
  • Hí (

    the innocents

    ) wǽron gehwǽde and ungewittige ácwealde, ac hí árísaþ on ðam gemǽnelícum dóme mid fullum wæstme and heofenlícere snoternysse,
      Homl. Th. i. 84, 23.
  • Snotornesse ł wísdóm

    sapientiam,

      Ps. Lamb. 48, 4.
  • Salomon gesette þreó béc þurh his snoternesse,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 36.
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