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stíþness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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stíþness, e ; f.
Hardness, severity, force ; violentia,
    Hpt. Gl. 435, 76 : 516, 23
: duritia, 482, 66.
hardness, stiffness in a physical sense
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  • Gif hwylc stíðnes on líchoman becume, genim ðás wyrte . . . lege tó ðam sáre,

      Lchdm, i. 132, 16.

  • Wiþ ǽghwylce gegaderunga þe on ðam líchoman ácenned beóþ, genim ðás wyrte . . . lege tó ðam sáre, hit tófereþ ealle ða stíðnyssa, 140, 14 : 150, 10. Ia. fig. hardness of heart :-- Stíðnise heartes

    duritiam cordis,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 19, 8.
firmness, constancy
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  • Ða hnescan

    vel

    wácmód, ðæt synd ða ðe náne stíðnysse nabbaþ ongeán leahtras,
      Homl. Skt. i. 17, 40.
severity, strictness, hardness, rigour
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  • Mid micelre car*-*fulnysse stíðnyss seó sý gemetegud

    magna sollicitudine districtio ipsa moderetur,

      Scint. 123, 9.

  • Beó him gesǽd eall seó stíðnys and earfoðnys ðe tó Gode lǽt

    predicentur ei omnia dura et aspera per que itur ad Deum,

      R. Ben. 96, 19.

  • Ne hý mid weorces stíðnesse ofsette sýn

    ut . . . ne violentia laboris opprimantur,

      75, 9.

  • Ðæt wé mid sumere stíðnysse tó ðam gástlícum gefeohte ús gegearcian,

      Homl. Th. ii. 86, 12, 26 : 374, 15.

  • Gif hwá ða stíðnysse áberan ne mæg ðe his scrift him tǽcþ

    si quis austeritatem perferre nequeat, quam confessarius ejus ei praescripserit,

      L. Ecg. P. iv. 60 ; Th. ii. 220, 25.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “stíþness.” 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/29048.

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