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clǽnsung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
clǽnsung, e; f.
A CLEANSING, purifying, chastening, expiation, chastity; emundatio, purificatio, castigatio, expiatio, castitas
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  • Ðú towurpe hine fram clǽnsunge

    destruxisti eum ab emundatione,

    • Ps. Lamb. 88, 45: Mk. Bos. 1, 44
      • .

  • Wæs Rómána gewuna ðæt hí clǽnsunge þweáles and bæþes sóhton

    Romanorum usus fuit lavacri purificationem quærere,

    • Bd. 1, 27
      • ;
    • S. 495, 15
      • .

  • Wæs he mid clǽnsunge forhæfednesse weorþ and mǽre

    erat abstinentiæ castigatione insignis,

    • 4, 28
      • ;
    • S. 606, 39
      • .

  • Biþ heó fremiende to his clǽnsunge

    erit in expiationem ejus proficiens,

    • Lev. 1, 4
      • .

  • Ðe belumpon to ðære mynsterlícan clǽnsunge

    quæ monasticæ castitatis erant,

    • Bd. 5, 19
      • ;
    • S. 637, 14
      • .
Derived forms
ge-clǽnsung, mynster-, un-
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “clǽnsung.” 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/6280.

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