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For passage in l. 18 see IV, and add:
emptiness. Cf. ídel;
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  • Þá welegan hé forlǽteþ on ídelnesse (

    diuites dimisit inanes,

      Lk. l, 53), Bl. H. 5, 10 : 159, 19.
worthlessness; a worthless, useless thing, a vanity. Cf. ídel; II
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  • Idelnessa

    uana,

      Wülck. Gl. 253, 29.

  • Hwǽr beóþ þá symbelnessa, and þá ídelnessa, and þá ungemetlican hleahtras ?, Bl. H. 59, 18. II a. a vain, false religion :-- Ýdelnysse

    superstitions,

      An. Ox. 4429.

  • Ýdelnysse

    super-stitione, i. uanitate,

    4021.

  • Nú is se tíma ꝥ ðú forlǽte þíne ýdelnesse and lác ðám godum geoffrige,

      Hml. S. 22, 213.
lack of result, ineffectiveness. Cf. II, II a α
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  • Hí ealne dæg mid ídelnesse (

    frustra

    ) wunnon,
      Gr. D. 250, 21.

  • On ídelnesse mon ongit Godes ðæt hefonlice wuldor, gif. . .

    incassum gloria patriae coelestis agnoscitur, nisi

    . . . ,
      Past. 160, 17.

  • In ídelnesse mec worðiað

    in uanum me colunt,

      Mk. L. R. 7, 7.
idleness, lack of energy
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  • Nys eác mid ídelnysse tó forelǽtanne þæt wundor

    non me quoddam spiritale praesagium narrare piget,

      Guth. Gr. 159, l.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ídel-ness.” 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/53815.

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