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greátnes

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Substitute:
coarseness of material
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  • Ne cíden nó þá munecas ymb þá deáge oþþe greátnesse (grétnysse, R. Ben. I. 92, 2) hyra reáfa

    de colore aut grossitudine non causentur monachi,

      R. Ben. 89, 15.
bigness, thickness
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  • Ðeós wyrt hafað elne lange stelan on fingres greátnesse, Lch. i. 270, 20: 278, 17. II a.

    great bulk, swollen form

    :-- Swilce man siwige áne bytte and bláwe hí fulle windes, and wyrce siððan án þyrl, þonne heó tóþunden bið, on hire greátnysse,
      Hml. S. 34, 319.
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  • greátnes,