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þweorness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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þweorness, e; f.
crookedness (fig.)
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v. þweorh, I. 2
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  • Ðwyrnyssa beóð gerihte,

    • Homl. Th. i. 362, 22.
opposition.
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v. þweorh, II, þweorlíce, II
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  • Aduersus ongeán mid þwyrnysse (.i.

    discordia, MS. W.),

    • Ælfc. Gr. 38
    • ;
    • Zup. 239, 14.
  • Ðá sceorede ðágyt se yldesta hǽðengylda mid mycelre þwyrnysse

    the chief idolater still refused most flatly,

    • Homl. Th. i. 72, 10.
perversity, iniquity, evil, depravity
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  • Mycel is seó þwyrnes (cf.

    abundabit iniquitas, 8),

    • Wulfst. 82, 17.
  • Fram þwyrnysse

    a prauitate,

    • Scint. 32, 3.
  • For heora lífes ðwyrnysse,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 530, 24.
  • Forbeóde hé ða þwyrnesse hyra ungeþeahtes

    prohibeant pravorum prevalere consensum,

    • R. Ben. 119, 9.
  • Hrædlíce bið se Déma tó úrum bénum gebíged, gif wé fram úrum ðwyrnyssum beóð gerihtlǽhte,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 124, 35: Lchdm. iii. 276, 18.
  • Manna þwyrnyssa

    hominum prauitates,

    • Scint. 44, 9.
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  • þweorness, n.