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wéning

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wéning, e; f.
supposition, doubtful thought, doubt
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  • Se Godes man ne sceolde be ðan morgendæge þencean, ðý læs ðæt wǽre, ðæt hé þurh ðæt ǽnig ðara góda forylde, ðe hé ðonne ðý dæge gedón mihte, and(þurh) ða wéninge hweðer hé eft ðæs mergendæges gebídan móste

    the man of God ought not to think of the morrow, lest it should come to pass, that through it he should put off any of the good that he might do then on the day, and through the doubt whether he may live to see the morrow,

      Blickl. Homl. 213, 24.

  • II.

    hope, expectation :-- Bæd heó swíþe lange ðone cyningc, ðæt hé hí forlǽte on mynstre Criste þeówian, ðæt heó ða wénunge æt nýhstan ðurhteáh (so that at last her hope was realized ),

      Bd. 4, 19 ; S. 587, 39.

  • III. chance :-- In woenunga

    forte,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 13, 29.
Etymology
[Aboue onderstandingge and wenynge (imagination). Ayenb. 113, 6. It is a wrongful wenynge (opinion). Chauc. Boeth. 172, 28. O. H. Ger. ana-wánunga existimatio; bi-wánunga deliberatio.]
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v. wénunga.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wéning.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/35086.

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