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brád-nes

  • noun [ feminine ]
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brád-nes, -ness, -nis, -niss, -nys, -nyss, e; f. [brád broad, large, -nes, -nis, -nys -ness]
BROADNESS, extent, largeness, surface; latitudo, amplitudo, facies, superficies
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  • Se ródor belýcþ on his bósme ealle eorþan brádnysse

    the firmament incloses in its bosom all the extent of the earth,

      Hexam. 5; Norm. 8, 27.

  • Se wǽta, gyf hit sealt byþ of ðære sǽ, byþ þurh ðære lyfte brádnysse to ferscum wǽtan awend

    the moisture, if it is salt from the sea, is turned into fresh water through the extent of the atmosphere,

      Bd. de nat. rerum; Wrt. pop1. science 19, 3, 27; Lchdm. iii. 278, 11; 280, 14.

  • Gehérde me on tobrǽdednesse oððe on brádnesse Drihten

    exaudivit me in latitudine Dominus,

      Ps. Lamb. 117, 5.

  • Salomone forgeaf God brádnysse heortan

    God gave Solomon largeness [or liberality] of heart,

      Homl. Th. ii. 576, 29.

  • Þeóstru wǽron ofer ðære niwelnisse brádnisse

    tenebræ erant super faciem abyssi,

      Gen. 1, 2.

  • Ðære eorþan brádnis wæs adrúwod

    exsiccata esset superficies terra,

      8, 13.

  • Byþ ðære eorþan brádnys betweox us and ðære sunnan

    the surface of the earth is between us and the sun,

      Bd. de nat. rerum; Wrt. popl. science 5, 8; Lchdm. iii. 240, 14.

  • Sumes þinges brádnyss

    the surface of something;

    superficies,
      Ælfc. Gr, 47; Som. 48, 47.

  • Án wyll asprang of ðære eorþan, wætriende ealre ðære eorþan brádnysse

    fons ascendebat e terra, irrigans universam superficiem terræ,

      Gen. 2, 6.
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v.  brǽded-nes brǽd-nys.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “brád-nes.” 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/4914.

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