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costnung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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costnung, costung, costing, e; f. [costnian, costian to tempt, try]
A temptation, trying, trial, tribulation; tentatio, probatio, tribulatio
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  • Ðeós costnung is of ðam níþfullan deófle

    this temptation is from the malicious devil

    • Boutr. Scrd. 23, 10, 8.
  • Wæs seó ǽreste costung ofercumen

    the first temptation was overcome

    • Exon. 39a
    • ;
    • Th. 128, 24
    • ;
    • Gú. 409
    • ;
    • Homl. Th. ii. 156, 26
    • ;
    • Ex. 17, 7.
  • On ðære costnunge tíman

    in tempore tentationis

    • Lk. Bos. 8, 13.
  • Æfter dæge costunge

    secundum diem tentationis

    • Ps. Spl. 94, 8.
  • Ne gelǽd ðú us on costnunge

    ne nos inducas in tentationem

    • Mt. Bos. 6, 13
    • ;
    • 26, 41
    • ;
    • Mk. Bos. 14, 38
    • ;
    • Lk. Bos. 11, 4
    • ;
    • 22, 40, 46
    • ;
    • Homl. Th. ii. 596, 9
    • ;
    • 600, 16.
  • On costunge

    in tentatione

    • Deut. 9, 22.
  • Sindan costinga monge arisene

    many temptations are arisen

    • Exon. 33a
    • ;
    • Th. 104, 18
    • ;
    • Gú. 9.
  • Ðæt he us gescylde wið ða þúsendlícan cræftas deófles costunga

    that he shield us from the thousand crafts of the devil's temptations

    • Homl. Blick. 19, 17.
  • Micle costnunge ge gesáwon

    tentationes magnas viderunt oculi tui

    • Deut. 29, 3.
  • Drecþ se deófol mancynn mid mislícum costnungum

    the devil vexes mankind with various temptations

    • Boutr. Scrd. 19, 44.
  • Seó costnung ðære éhtnesse gestilled wæs

    the trial of the persecution was stilled

    • Bd. 1, 8
    • ;
    • S. 479, 19.
  • Me costung and sár cnyssedan

    tribulation and sorrow troubled me

    • Ps. Th. 114, 4.
  • Hí on costunge cleopedan to Drihtne

    clamaverunt ad Dominum cum tribularentur

    • 106, 12, 18, 27;
    • 117, 5;
    • 142, 12
  • Ðonne me costunge cnysedon

    in die tribulationis meæ

    • Ps. Th. 58, 17
    • ;
    • 65, 13
  • Me costunga cnysdan

    tribulatio et angustia invenerunt me

    • Ps. Th. 118, 143
    • ;
    • 119, 1
    • ;
    • 137, 7.
Derived forms
nýd-costing.
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v.  costing costung.
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