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módig-ness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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módig-ness, e;f.
in a bad sense, Pride
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  • Módignys

    superbia,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 76, 26.
  • Se eahteoða heáfodleahter is módignyss (þe ehtuðe sunne is ihatan superbia, þet is on englisc modinesse,

    • O. E. Homl. i. 103, 33
    • ),
    • Homl. Th. ii. 218, 22.
  • Flǽsces tóbryte módignesse

    carnis terat superbiam,

    • Hymn. Surt. 9, 22
    • .
  • Ða heofenlícan myrhþe ðe ða englas þurh módignysse forluron,

    • Homl. Th. i. 360, 28.
in a good sense, Highmindedness, magnanimity, greatness of mind which does not resent injury
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  • Eahta sweras syndon ðe rihtlícne cynedóm upwegaþ:sóþfæstnys, módignes

    (patientia),

    • L. I. P. 3
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 306, 28.
  • [Þatt wǽre modiȝnesse & idell ȝellp,
    • Orm. 12040:
    stiȝþ on heh þurh modinesse,
    • O. and N. 1405.
    ]
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  • módig-ness, n.