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un-gleáwness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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un-gleáwness, e; f.
Want of understanding, unskilfulness, foolishness, blindness (fig.)
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  • Unglædnes (-glǽwnes?)

    imperitia,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 46, 25.
  • Sió ungleáwnes biþ on ðé selfum, ðæt ðú hit ne canst on riht gecnáwan,

    • Bt. 39, 10
    • ;
    • Fox 226, 33.
  • Ongleáwnis

    imperitia,

    • Scint. 5, 5.
  • [Un]gleáwnysse

    rusticitatis,

    • Hpt. Gl. 529, 16.
  • Hé nǽfre for his unglaunesse (ungleáwnesse, MS. T.) and for his unscearpnesse ða ðénunge on riht geleornian mihte

    nullatenus propter ingenii tarditatem potuit ministerium discere,

    • Bd. 5, 6
    • ;
    • S. 620, 7.
  • Of ungleáunesse

    imperitia (os stultorum pascitur imperitia, Prov. 15, 14),

    • Kent. Gl. 520.
  • Ungleównise heartæs

    caecitatem cordis,

    • Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 3, 5.
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v.  un-glædnes.
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  • un-gleáwness, n.