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wóhness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wóhness, e; f.
crookedness (lit. or fig. ), a crooked place
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  • Ic gerihte sume wóhnysse

    dirigo,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 28, 5
    • ;
    • Zup. 173, 9.
  • Ealle wóhnyssa beóð gerihte

    erwni prava in directa(Is.

      40, 4
    ),

      Homl. Th. i. 360, 33.
wrongdoing, iniquily, perversity, depravity, wickedness
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  • Heora wóhnys on ðam regole his rihtwisnysse aetspearn.

      Homl. Th. ii. 158, 10.
  • Ic wæs on wónysse geeácnod

    in iniquitatibus conceptus sum,

    • Bd. I. 27
    • ;
    • S. 495, 24.
  • Fram langre wónesse and ungesǽlignysse álýsde

    a longa iniquitate atque infelicitate liberatam,

    • 2, 15
    • ;
    • S. 519, 10.
  • Wónessa

    iniquitales,

    • Bd. 5, 13
    • ;
    • S. 633, 38
    • :
    • Blickl. Homl. 107, 24.
  • Heora wóhnyssa forgyfennys,

      Homl. Ass. 136, 668.
  • Ǽlc ðæra wónessa(crimes) ðe tó ǽnigre bóte gebyrie,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 143, 23.
  • On wðnyssum

    in iniquitatibus,

    • Bd. l, 27
    • ;
    • S. 495, 25.
  • Gif hie on ǽnigum dǽle wólíce libban heora líf, sýn hié from heora wónessum onwende, and fram heora unrihtum oncyrran.

      Blickl. Homl. 109, 20.
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