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wynsumness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wynsumness, e; f.
pleasantness, agreeableness, delight.
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v. wynsum, I. 1
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  • Wynsumnisse orcerd

    paradisum voluptatis,

      Gen. 2, 8.

  • Of stówe ðære winsumnisse

    de loco voluptatis,

      2, 10.

  • Ðære wynsumnysse brǽð

    odorem suavitatis,

      8, 21.

  • Woruldlícere wensumnesse

    mundanae suavitatis, secularis dulcedinis,

      Hpt. Gl. 413, 67: Confess. Peccat.

  • Éces wynsumnisse

    aeterne jocunditatis,

      Rtl. 103, 24.

  • Hæfde hé mé gebunden mid ðære wynnsumnesse his sanges

    me carminis dulcedo defixerat,

    • Bt. 22, 1
      • :
    • Fox 76, 6.

  • Hé on wynsumnesse lifde,

      Blickl. Homl. 113, 7.

  • Se middangeard wæs blówende on swýþe manigfealdre wynsumnesse ... and teáh men tó him þurh his wlite and þurh his fægernesse and wynsumnesse,

      115, 7-12.

  • Ic ða wynsumnesse and fægernesse ðæs londes wundrade,

      Nar. 26, 25.

  • On ðære stówe wynsumnesse

    in amoenitatem loci,

    • Bd. 5, 12
      • ;
    • S. 629, 39.

  • Geseón ealles ðysses middangeardes wynsumnessa, ge on golde, ge on deórwyrþum hræglum,

      Blickl. Homl. 31, 3.
pleasantness which affects the eye, fairness, beauty
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  • Wynsum[nysse]

    venustate,

      Hpt. Gl. 526, 22.
pleasantness of behaviour.
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v. wynsum, I. 2
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  • God ús lǽrð sibbe and wynsumnesse, and deófol ús lǽrð unsibbe and wróhte,

      Homl. Ass. 168, 111.
joyousness, exultation.
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v. wynsum, II
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  • Wynsumnis mín

    exultatio mea,

      Ps. Surt. 31, 7.

  • Weolure wynsumnisse

    labia exultationis,

      62, 6.

  • In wynsumnisse

    in jubilatione,

      32, 3.

  • Mid wynsumnesse

    exultatione,

      Blickl. Gl.: Rtl. 50, 19.
devotion.
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v. wilsumness
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  • Mid wynsumnysse heortan (wilsume heortan,

      Bd. M. 228, 6
    )

    devoto corde,

    • Bd. 3, 22
      • ;
    • S. 553, 22.

  • On micelre wynsumnesse (wilsumnisse,

      Bd. M. 376, 11
    ) gebeda

    orationis devotione,

    • 4, 30
      • ;
    • S. 609, 5.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wynsumness.” 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/36944.

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