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yfelness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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yfelness, e; f.
Evil, wickedness, badness
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  • Yfelnys

    malignitas,

      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 25; Zup. 50, 10.
in a moral sense
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  • Micel yfelnys (

    malitia

    ) manna wæs ofer eorðan,
      Gen. 6, 5.

  • Hé (

    Antichrist

    ) neádaþ þurh yfelnysse ðæt men sceolon búgan fram heora Scyppendes geleáfan tó his leásungum, se ðe is ord ǽlcre leásunge and yfelnysse . . . on ðam tíman bið micel yfelnyss and þwyrnys betwux mancynne,
      Homl. Th. i. 4, 27-33.
  • Sume burgon heora feore and ámeldodon heora cristenan mágas . . . Ðeós yfelnys bið eác on Antecristes tócyme, ii. 542, 24.

  • Bydelas ðæs écan yfeles, ðe yfelum mannum becymð for heora ánwillan yfelnysse,

      538, 24.

  • Yfelnysse (

    malitiam

    ) ná hé hatude,
      Ps. Spl. 35, 4: 51, 3.

  • Ðurh yfelnysse (

    nequitiam

    ) unrihtes willan,
      Bd. 1. 27; S. 495, 13.

  • Hé áwearp yfelnysse and ða unrihtan biggengas ðæra leásra goda,

      Homl. Skt. i. 18, 461: Chr. 1086; Erl. 223, 2.

  • God gesihð úre yfelnyssa and úre gyltas forðyldgaþ,

      Homl. Th. ii. 84, 2.
malignity, cruelty, v. yfel,
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  • He slóh and tó sceame túcode ða Norðhymbran leóde, óþ ðæt Óswold his yfelnysse ádwæscte,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 13,
misfortune, ill fortune
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  • Oxan grasiende gesihð sige ceápas getácnaþ; oxan slápende gesihð yfelnysse ceápes getácnaþ,

      Lchdm. iii. 200, 10.
Etymology
[He forbere monna hufelnesse þurh his liðnesse, O. E. Homl. i. 95, 14.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “yfelness.” 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/37074.

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