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for-sworcenness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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for-sworcenness, e; f.
Obscurity, darkness
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  • On forsworcennesse sweartes þrosmes and ðæs weallendan pices,

      Wlfst. 139, 1.
  • Næfð mín niht náne forsworcennysse,

      Hml. Th. i. 428, 30.
  • Forsworcennyssa

    obscura,

      Hy. S. 23, 31: 37, 4.
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v.  -sworcenness.
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  • for-sworcenness, n.