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nearu-ness

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nearu-ness, <b>. I.</b> add: <b>I a.</b>
a narrow space, a place of small extent
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  • Nearenesse ergastulo (e corporis

    ergastulo

    emigrare),
      An. Ox. 979.
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  • Þám men bið þurst getenge and nearones. Lch. ii. 194, 2.

  • For manegum nearonessum ic neálǽhte mínum ende crebris angustiis ad exitum propinquans, Gr. D. 243, 19. II a. physical inconvenience, difficulty, troublesome action :-- Hí gesáwon þá nearonessa and þá uneáðnesse þe him sylfum gedón wæs

    factam sibi difficultatem videbant,

      Gr. D. 226, 17.
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  • Geseah hé fréfrende gesyhðe, seó him ealle þá nearonesse (neara-, v.l.) þǽre gemyngedan sorge

    (omnem anxietatem memoratae sollicitudinis)

    áfyrde,
      Bd. 4, II; Sch, 406, 9.

  • Gif ealle wítegan wítegodon þæt Crist sceolde ðurh nearunysse his ðrowunge intó his heofonlican wuldre faran, húmeta mæg sé beón crísten, sé ðe nele . . . ðurh nánre earfoðnysse þæt éce wuldor mid Críste geearnian ?,

      Hml. Th. ii. 284, 27.

  • Gefriða mé of eallum mínum nearonessum

    redime ex omnibus angustiis meis,

      Ps. Th. 24, 20.
scantiness.
of space
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  • Fore nearonesse (nearwnesse, v.l.) þǽre stówe þe þæt mynster on getimbred is

    propter angustiam loci, in quo monasterium constructum est,

      Bd. 4, 10; Sch. 400, 6.
of means
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  • Ðeáh wé þisse worulde wlenca tilian swíðe . . . ; þeáh wé ús mid þám deórwyrþestan gimmum úton ymbehón, hwæðere wé sceolon on nearonysse ende gebídan,

      Wlfst. 263, 1.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “nearu-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/55831.

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