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sóftness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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sóftness, e; f.
Softness, ease; in a bad sense, luxury, effeminacy
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  • Heora fela wǽron mid olfendes hǽrum tó líce gescrýdde, and ðǽr láðode sóftnys,

      Homl. Th. ii. 506, 24.
  • Mid sóftnysse and mid yfelum lustum, i. 270, 5: Homl. As. 15, 59.
  • Ða ðe ðǽr (

    in heaven

    ) singaþ ne swincaþ on ðam sange, ac mid sóftnysse bútan geswince hí heriaþ ðone
      Hǽlend, 43, 470.
  • Sóftnysse

    luxuriam,

      Germ. 401, 19.
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  • sóftness, n.