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wóhness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wóhness, e; f.
crookedness (lit. or fig. ), a crooked place
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  • Ic gerihte sume wóhnysse

    dirigo,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 28, 5
      • ;
    • Zup. 173, 9.

  • Ealle wóhnyssa beóð gerihte

    erwni prava in directa(Is.

      40, 4
    ),

      Homl. Th. i. 360, 33.
wrongdoing, iniquily, perversity, depravity, wickedness
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  • Heora wóhnys on ðam regole his rihtwisnysse aetspearn.

      Homl. Th. ii. 158, 10.

  • Ic wæs on wónysse geeácnod

    in iniquitatibus conceptus sum,

    • Bd. I. 27
      • ;
    • S. 495, 24.

  • Fram langre wónesse and ungesǽlignysse álýsde

    a longa iniquitate atque infelicitate liberatam,

    • 2, 15
      • ;
    • S. 519, 10.

  • Wónessa

    iniquitales,

    • Bd. 5, 13
      • ;
    • S. 633, 38
      • :
    • Blickl. Homl. 107, 24.

  • Heora wóhnyssa forgyfennys,

      Homl. Ass. 136, 668.

  • Ǽlc ðæra wónessa(crimes) ðe tó ǽnigre bóte gebyrie,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 143, 23.

  • On wðnyssum

    in iniquitatibus,

    • Bd. l, 27
      • ;
    • S. 495, 25.

  • Gif hie on ǽnigum dǽle wólíce libban heora líf, sýn hié from heora wónessum onwende, and fram heora unrihtum oncyrran.

      Blickl. Homl. 109, 20.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wóhness.” 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/36428.

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