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up-áhefedness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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up-áhefedness, e; f.
Elevation.
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  • Exaltatio sancte crucis,

    ðæt is on Engliscre sprǽce upáhefednyss ðære hálgan róde, for ðan ðe heó wæs áhafen on ðam dæge,
      Homl. Skt. ii. 27, 140.
metaphorical,
exaltation
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  • Þurh ðás clypunge is gesweotolad, ðæt ǽlc upáhefednes ásprincð of módignesse cynrene

    ostendit nobis omnem exaltationem genus esse superbie,

      R. Ben. 22, 13.
exultation
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  • Upáhæfdnes mín

    exaltatio mea,

      Ps. Lamb. 31, 7.
arrogance, pride
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  • Ðisses mannes (

    Dives'

    ) uncyst and upáhefednys,
      Homl. Th. i. 328, 22: ii. 560, 20: Homl. Skt. i. 16, 163.
  • Aman wearð gehýnd for his upáhefednysse,

      Homl. Ass. 101, 322.
  • Hé (

    Lucifer

    ) wæs fordón þurh ða miclan upáhefednysse,
      Homl. Th. i. 12, 21.
  • Upáhefednesse forfleón

    elationem vel jactantiam fugere,

      R. Ben. 18, 23: L. E. I. 21; Th. ii. 418, 12.
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v. up-áhafenness.
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v.  up-áhafenness.
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  • up-áhefedness, n.