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or-módness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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or-módness, e; f.
Desperation, despair
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  • Ormódnes

    disperatio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 72.

  • Mid ðý hé ús geseah on ormódnesse

    (in desperatione)

    gesette,
      Bd. 5, 1; S. 614, 5.

  • Ðá se earma man ðus mid ormódnesse sprecendé wæs

    sic loquebatur miser desperans,

      5, 13; S. 633, 21.

  • Tó ormódnesse

    ad desperationem,

      Past. 14, 3; Swt. 83, 19: 21, 7; Swt. 165, 19.

  • Hæfde hine seó deófollíce strǽl mid ormódnysse gewundodne: wæs se eádiga wer Gúðlác mid ðære ormódnysse þrí dagas gewundod, ðæt hé sylfa nyste hwider hé wolde mid his móde gecyrran,

      Guthl. 4; Gdwin. 28, 13-17.

  • Ic habbe ongiten ðíne ormódnesse . . . ðú sǽdest ðæt ðú wǽre bereáfod ǽlces gódes,

      Bt. 5, 3; Fox 12, 31.

  • Ic eom geunrótsod fulneáh óþ ormódnesse,

      41, 2; Fox 246, 14.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “or-módness.” 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/24969.

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