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on-drysnu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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on-drysnu, -desnu; f.
fear
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  • Fore ondesne (ondesnum, Rush.)

    propter metum,

      Jn. Skt. Lind, 19, 38 : 20, 19.
  • Ðætte sió forsewennes him ege and ondrysnu on gebringe

    ut ostensa desperatio formidinem incutiat,

      Past. 37, 2; Swt. 265, 19.
  • Hé wolde ðǽm fortrúwodum monnum andrysno hálwendes eges on gebrengean

    ut praecipitatis vim saluberrimi timoris infunderet,

      49, 5; Swt. 385, 16.
  • Ðonne esne on-drysnum his hláforde cwemeþ,

      Ps. Th. 122, 2.
reverence
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  • Hié hæfdan miccle lufan and geleáfan tó ðære ciricean, and eác heálíco ondrysnu (

    profound reverence for the church

    ),
      Blickl. Homl. 205, 9.
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  • on-drysnu, n.