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wan-hálness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wan-hálness, e; f.
Weakness, sickness, unsoundness, infirmity
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  • Ðæm abbode is á tó behealdenne heora (fratrum infirmorum) wanhálnes (imbecillitas), R. Ben. 75, II. Wanhálnysse

    (debilitate)

    ealles líchaman,
      Scint. 38, 7.
  • Dysig æfter untrumnysse his ongyt, and æfter wanhálnysse

    (inbecillitatem)

    gecyndes his wát,
      97, 15.
  • Bróþor se untruma gif hé gefrét hys weaxan wanhálnysse

    (inbecillitatem),

    Anglia xiii.
      442, 1102.
  • Cf. wan-hæ̂lþ.
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v.  hál-ness wan-hǽþ.
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  • wan-hálness, n.