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smyltness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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smyltness, e; f.
Quiet, calm, serenity, tranquillity.
of physical calm
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  • Ðá bebeád hé ðam winde and ðære sǽ, and ðǽr wearð geworden mycel smyltness,

      Mt. Kmbl. 8, 26.
  • Smyltnes,

      Mk. Skt. 4, 39: Blickl. Homl. 235, 9.
  • On smyltnysse lyfta

    serenitate aerum, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 30. I a. the quiet of evening, evening :-- Miððý éfern ł smyltnis, (sero )

    eére áwordæn,
      Mk. Skt. Lind. 4, 35.
  • Smyltnise,

      Jn. Skt. Lind. 6, 16.
  • Næhtes smyltnisse noctis quiete, Rtl. 37, 35. I b.

    gentleness, quietness

    in action :-- Hig hine mid ealre smyltnesse swá gelǽddon and on heora fiðerum bǽron, ðæt hé ne mihte ne on scipe fægeror gefered beón,
      Guthl. 5; Gdwin. 40, 16, 14.
quiet, silence
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  • Smyltnisse gesette

    silentium inposuisset,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 22, 34.
placidity, calmness
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  • Cara cura, oferfǽt obesus, smyltnys

    pinguedo

    (placidity?),
      Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 11.
peace, tranquillity, quiet
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  • Smyltnes wæs ofor eorþan and sibba genihtsumnes,

      Blickl. Homl. 115, 9.
  • Ðurh ðæt wierð tóslieten sió stilnes hiera hiéremonna módes and biþ gedréfed sió smyltnes hiera lífes

    eo subditorum vitam dissipata quietis tranquillitate confundunt,

      Past. 40, 1; Swt. 289, 8.
  • Anweald on sibbe smyltnesse gehealdan,

      Lchdm. iii. 436, 13.
  • Swefn siriyltnysse and glædnysse gehátaþ,

      156, 14.
  • Tídlíc smyltnisse girǽce and líf gibrenga éce

    temporalem tranquilitatem tribuat et vitam conferat sempiternam,

      Rtl. 31, 28.
calmness, composure
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  • Ðý læs ða smyltnesse ðæs dómes gewemme tó hræd ierre,

      Past. 13; Swt. 79, 13.
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  • smyltness, n.