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styreness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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styreness, e; f.
motion, movement
Mid his óðra lima styrenessa aliorum motu membrorum,
    Bd. 4, 11; S. 579, 27.
Ic ealle míne styrenesse forleás motum omnem perdidi, 5,6; S. 619, 19. Ðæt hors blon fram ðám unhálum styrenbessum ðara [h]leorna equus cessabat ab insanis membrorum motibus,
    3, 9; S. 533, 39.
a commotion, agitation, disturbance, perturbation,
in a physical sense
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  • Styrnise michelo (

    motus magnus

    ) geworden wæs in sae,
      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 8, 24.
  • Æfter styrenisse wætres

    post motum aquae,

      Jn. Skt. Rush. 5, 4.
figuratively
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  • Styrenise

    tumultus,

      Mk. Skt. Lind. 14, 2.
  • Swá monigum and swá myclum styrenesse (-um?) wiþerweardra ðinga

    tot ac tantis rerum adversantium motibus,

      Bd. 5, 23; S. 646, 4.
  • Styrenissum

    perturbationibus,

      Rtl. 59, 5.
  • v. eorþ-, ge-, on-styreness.
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