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ge-dyrstignes

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presumption, audacity
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  • Ðý lǽs sió gedyrstignes his módes hine tó upp áhebbe

    ne mentem praesumtio spiritus levet,

    • Past. 79, 17.

  • Sý forboden on mynstre ǽlcere gedyrstignesse (praesumtionis) intinga.

    • R. Ben. 129, 13.

  • Hié nó sceolon ábúgan þurh ǽnige gedyrstignesse

    ne temere declinetur a quoquam,

    • 15, 21.

  • Gif hwylc þurh gedyrstignesse . . .

    qui praesumpserit

    . . . ,
    • 130, 4.

  • Þurh þá gedyrstignesse (-durst-,

    • Ll. Th. i. 270, 24)
    þe folces men wiðhæfton þǽre gelómlican myngunge,

    • Ll. Lbmn. 206, 22.

  • Þ gé gehýrdon þá oferhygdlican gedyrstignesse þæs elreordgan kyninges,

    • Nar. 19, ii.

  • Þ hé heora oferhýd tóweorpe and gedyrstignesse (-þyrstignesse, v.l.) dréfe

    ut superbiam eorum dissipet et conturbet audaciam,

    • Bd. 4, 3;
    • Sch. 3628.
a bold undertaking
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  • Gedyrstignessum

    ausis

    ,
    • Wrt. Voc. ii 9, 32.
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v.  ge-durstignes ge-dyrstnes.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dyrstignes.” 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/47764.

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