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wilnung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
wilnung, e; f.
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  • Úþwitan secgaþ ðæt sió sáwul hæbbe ðrió gecynd. Án ðara gecynda is ðæt heó biþ wilnigende . . . Twá ðara gecynda habbaþ nétenu ; . . . óþer ðara is wilnung . . . Seó gesceádwísnes sceal wealdan ðære wilnunga,

      Bt. 33, 4; Fox 132, 3-10: Met. 20, 186.

  • Worldlíce wilnung

    desiderium mundanum

    ,
      L. Ecg. P. i. 5 ; Th. ii. 174, 10.

  • Fram gebrosnucge lícumlícre willnunge clǽne

    a corruptione con-cupiscentiae carnalis inmune

    ,
      Bd. 3, 8 ; S. 532, 36.

  • Unálýfedre willnunge mód biþ geþeóded,

      I. 27; S. 495, 9.

  • Unrihtes willan willnunge

    cupidine voluptatis

    ,
      495, 33.

  • Sum hláw, ðone men for feós wilnunga gedulfon,

      Guthl. 4 ; Gdwin. 26, 6.

  • Ábisgod on ðisse worulde willnunga (wilnunga,

    v. l.

    ),
      Bt. 41, 3; Fox 246, 31.

  • For ðære wilnunge (gewil-nunge, v. l. ) ðe hé wolde hý him on fultum geteón

    ambitione habendorum equitum Thessalorum, quorum robur ut exercitui suo admiscerit

    ,
      Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 59, 14.

  • Hé nóhwæþere heora willnunge habban ne ðurhteón magan

    in neutro cupitum possunt obtinere propositum

    ,
      Bd. 5, 23; S. 647, 2.

  • Drihten gehýrð ða wilnunga his þearfena

    desiderium pauperum exaudivit Dominus

    ,
      Ps. Th. 9, 37.

  • Willniungum

    petitionibus

    .
      Mt. Kmbl. p. 14, 20.
Etymology
[Þuruh wilnunge of hereword, A. R. 148, 20. Worsipe haue þon for þine wilninge, Laym. 3160.]
Similar entries
v. ge-, ungemet-, unriht-, weorold-wilnung.
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v.  willnung.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wilnung.” 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/35807.

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