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tíderness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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tíderness, e; f.
weakness, frailty,
weakness in a general sense, physical, mental, or moral
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  • Ne mæg úre tyddernes ðyder (

    to heaven

    ) ástígan,
      Homl. Th. i. 138, 12: ii. 6, 29: 88, 18.

  • Ðeós mennisce tyddernes biþ swá slídende swá glæs, ðonne hit scínþ and ðonne tóbersteþ,

      Shrn. 119, 22.

  • Sió niht getácnaþ ða ðístro ðære blindnesse úrre tídernesse

    per noctem caecitas nostrae infirmitatis exprimitur,

      Past. 56; Swt. 433, 13.

  • Tiddernysse

    fragilitatis (humanae ),

      Hpt. Gl. 437, 31.

  • Tédernise,

      Rtl. 45, 16: 46, 32.

  • For líchoman tídernesse (tiéder-, Hatt. MS.)

    per imbecillitatem corporis,

      Past. 10; Swt. 60, 10.

  • Ðære tídernesse úres flǽsces wé beóþ underðiédde,

      21; Swt. 159, 5.

  • For ðæs módes týdernesse,

      Bt. 3, 2; Fox 6, 7: Blickl. Homl. 31, 30.

  • Swá hwæt swá ic for unwísnesse and for tyddernesse (

    fragilitate

    ) ágylte,
      Bd. 4, 29; S. 607, 29: Boutr. Scrd. 21, 17.

  • Ðú wást,

    Drihten, ða menniscan tyddernysse, Blickl. Homl. 243, 30.
the weakness of ill-health,
infirmity
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  • Gif hwylc mæssepreóst untruman men sprǽce forwyrne, and hé ðonne on ðære tyddernesse (

    infirmitate

    ) swelte,
      L. Ecg. P. i. 2; Th. ii. 172, 28.

  • Wiþ ǽlces dæges mannes tyddernysse inneweardes,

      Lchdm. i. 86, 16: ii. 196, 9.

  • Lǽcedómas wið eallum tiédernessum eágena,

      2, 6.

  • Mid sáre geswenced, mid mislícum ecum and tyddernessum,

      Blickl. Homl. 59, 8.
spiritual infirmity, sinfulness
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  • Ǽgylt, mislimp

    vel tyddernes excessus, i. culpa, delicta,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 68.
  • Ic eom andetta ealra synna ðara ðe ic ǽfre tó tiédernesse gefremede wið mínre sáwle þearfe, Anglia xi. 99, 89.

  • Swá neár ende ðyssere worulde swá biþ unstrengre mennisc ðurh máran tyddernysse,

      Homl. Th. ii. 370, 17.
  • v. innan-, innoþ-tíderness.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tíderness.” 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/30417.

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