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á-bryrdness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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á-bryrdness, e; f.
keen feeling, ardour
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  • Ábry[r]dnysse (ábrednysse. Hpt. Gl. 434, 56)

    amoris,

      An. Ox. 1184.
  • Mid his heortan ábryrdnysse

    intentione cordis,

      R. Ben. 80, 12.
  • Mid sibbe and mid sóðre ábryrdnysse,

      106, 1.
compunction, contrition
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  • Ábryrdnesse conpunctionis, An. Ox. 601: penitudinis . i.

    penitentie,

    1768.
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v. on-bryrdness.
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v.  á-brednes.
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