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trumness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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trumness, e; f.
firmness, strength, certainty
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  • Trumnesse

    firmitatem,

      Kent. Gl. 840.

  • Ðínes geleáfan trumnesse wé witon,

      Guthl. 5; Gdwin. 30, 18.

  • Wé witon ðæt manega clericas nyton hwæt byþ

    quadrans,

    ac wé willaþ his mihta and his trumnysse hér geswutelian, Anglia viii.
      306, 28.
health
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  • Ða truman sint tó manianne ðæt hié gewilnigen mid ðæs lícuman trumnesse ðæt him ne losige sió hǽlo ð æs módes ðý læs him ðý wirs sié gif hié ða trumnesse ðære Godes giefe him tó unnyte gehweorfaþ

    admonendi sunt incolumes, ut salutem carports exerceani ad salutem mentis; ne, si acceptae incolumitatis graí-iam ad usum nequitiae inclinent, dono deteriores fiant,

      Past. 36; Swt. 247, 6-8.
confirmation, support
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  • Drihten trumnes mín

    Dominus firmamentum meum,

      Ps. Spl. 17, 1: 24, 15 : 72, 4.

  • Ðæra apostola tweónung næs uá swá swíðe heora ungeleáffulnys, ac wæs úre trumnys,

      Homl. Th. i. 300, 34.
  • Hé týmde tó Basilies tǽcinge for his trumnysse, Basil prm. ; Norm. 32, 10.

  • Ealle trumnysse hláfes hé forcnád

    omne firmamentum panis contrivit.

      Ps. Spl. 104, 15.
a firm place, the firmament
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  • Bið trumnys on lande on hedhnyssum dúna erit firmamentum in terra in summis montium, Ps. Spl.

    71,

    16.

  • Weorc handa his bodaþ trumnyss[e] ł staþol

    (firmamentum),

      Ps. Spl. 18, 1. v.trymness.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “trumness.” 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/31077.

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