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trymness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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trymness, trymeness, e ; f.
firmness, v. trumness, I
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  • Heora wítes ne biþ trymnes (trymenis, Ps. Surt. )

    non est firmamentum in plaga eorum.

      Ps. Th. 72, 3.

  • Hiora trymnisse liomana

    suorum firmitate membrorum,

      Rtl. 32, 15.
that which makes a firm, a support, prop,
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  • Man ða ilcan studu útan tó gesette tó trymnesse (wræðe, col. l) ðæs wáges (in munimentum parietis) . . . tó trymnesse (fultume, col. l) ðæs húses

    infulcimentum domus,

      Bd. 3, 17 ; S. 544, 21-36.
figurative
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  • Drihten, ðú eart mín trymenes (-nis, Ps. Surt. )

    Dominus firmamentum meum,

      Ps. Th. 17, 1.

  • Ð ú eart min trymnes (trymenis. Ps. Surt),

      30, 4.
a firm place, fastness, v. trumness, IV
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  • Biþ trymenis

    (firmamentum;

    rodor.
      Ps. Lamb. ) in
    eorðan in heánissum munta, Ps. Surt. 71, 16.
a strengthening, a confirmation,
of a statement, agreement, etc.
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  • Trymnes

    confirmatio, assertio.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 133, 27.

  • Tó trymnisse

    testamento.

      Rtl. 191, 33.

  • Trymnessum

    adstipulationibus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 1, 7: 3, 63.
of
or in a purpose, belief, etc.
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  • Ðá wæsgestrangod Agustinus mid trymnysse ðæs eádigan fæder

    roboratus confirmatione beati patris Agustinus,

      Bd. 1. 25; S. 486, 13.
a
strengthening by words, an exhortation
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  • Trymnes

    exortatio, i. monitio, doctrina,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 77.

  • Trymnises

    exortationis,

      Mk. Skt. p. 2, 5.

  • Mid stefne his háligre trymenesse (trymnisse, Bd. M. 106, 26) and láre

    voce sanctae exhortationis,

      Bd. 2, 4; S. 505, 18.

  • Trymnyssum

    exhortationibus,

      1. 7; S. 477, 3.

  • Trymenessum, 5, 22 ;

    S.

      644, 6.
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v. ge-, un-trymness.
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v.  trymeness.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “trymness.” 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/31098.

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