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þrowing

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
þrowing, þreowing, e; f.
suffering as opposed to doing
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suffering which is painful
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as a medical term, a painful symptom :
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suffering that is undergone for the sake of religion, suffering of persecution, cross (in the phrase to take up one's cross)
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suffering which ends in death, passion, martyrdom :
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the anniversary of a martyr's suffering :
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Etymology
[Vre drihtnes halie passiun, þet is his halie þrowunge, O. E. Homl. i. 119, 26. Inntill þrowwinnge and pine, Orm. 15205. Cheosen er licomes hurt þen soule þrowunge, A. R. 372, 6. Wiðuten ðhrowing and figt, Gen. and Ex. 1317.
O. H. Ger. druuunga passio.
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