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secrecy, privacy, solitude
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  • Hwý hié þára geearnunga hiora dígelnesse (diég-, v. l.) and ánette bet trúwien ðonne ðǽre hú hié óðerra monna mǽst gehelpen

    qua mente utilitati ceterorum secretum praeponit suum,

      Past. 46, 2.
a secret, mystery
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  • Heó þurhwunode on þám wærlicum híwe . . . and hyre cnihtas hyre dígolnysse eallum bedyrndon,

      Hml. S. 2, 103.

  • Þéh þe ǽgþer þissa burga þurh Godes diégelnessa (

    arcana

    ) þus getácnod wurde,
      Ors. 2, 1; S. 62, 25.

  • Hé árímde ðá diógolnesse (dígol-,

    v. l. secreta) ðæs ðriddan hefones . . . hé geimpod wæs tó ðǽm hefenlicum diógolnessum (dígol-, v. l. ),

      Past. 99, 7, 18.

  • Dígelnyssa

    abstrusa,

      An. Ox. 1952.

  • Wé habbað ðás race ánfealdlíce gereht; wé willað eác þæt andgit eów geopenian, and ðá dýgelnysse eów ne bedyrnan,

      Hml. Th. ii. 214, 18.
a secret place
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  • On dígelnesse

    latibulo, i. secretorio,

      An. Ox. 392.

  • Hé hæfde behýdd on his dígolnysse án wurðlic weorc,

      Hml. S. 5, 250.

  • Hé him cýtan árǽrde on sumere dígelnysse swylce hé ancersetla beón mihte,

      31, 1069.

  • Dígelnesse

    latibulum, i. obscurum,

      An. Ox. 3318.

  • Deágelnesse

    abyssum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 29.

  • Of dégolnessum

    de recessibus,

      28, 51.

  • Dígelnessum, An. Ox. 2952. ¶ Dýgelnyssum

    anastasis,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 17, 35.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. in tougalnesse in absconso.]
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v. díligness.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “dígolnes.” 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/42775.

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