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un-steaððigness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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un-steaððigness, e; f.
unsteadiness, instability, inconstancy
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  • Sun munuc mid gemáglícum bénum gewilnode ðæt hé móste of ðam munuclífe ... Ðá wearð se hálga wer geháthyrt ðurh his unstæððignysse, and hét hine áweg faran,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 176, 18.
want of sedateness, levity, wantonness
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  • Of gálnysse cumaþ ungemetegod lufu and eágena unstæððignys,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 220, 7.
  • Se grimlíca deófol lǽrð dyrstignysse and gebringð réceleáse men on unstæððignesse wordes and weorces,

    • Wulfst. 54, 3.
  • Mid módes unstæððignysse,

    • 60, 1.
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  • un-steaððigness, n.