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greediness for food,
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  • Gífernes

    gastri-margia

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 16.

  • Gýfernes

    vel

    oferfil, i.
      27, 21.
of persons
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  • Syndon eahta heáfodleahtras . . . Án is gecwæden

    gula

    , ꝥ is gýfernyss on Englisc ; seó déð ꝥ man yt ǽr tíman and drincð, oððe hé tó micel nimð on ǽte oððe on wǽte,
      Hml, S. 16, 268.

  • Suá oft suá wé úre hand dóð tó úrum múðe for giéfernesse ofergemet

    per immoderatum usum dum manus ad cibum tenditur

    ,
      Past. 313, 14.

  • Tantalus ðe on þisse worulde ungemetlíce gífre wæs, and him þǽr (

    in hell) ꝥ ilce yfel fyligde þæs gífernesse, Bt. 35, 6; F. 170, l. 'On giéfernesse (ingluvie) ðú rícsasð ofer ðá menniscan heortan. ' For ðǽm ðǽm ðe on giéfernesse ongietene (gulae deditos) beóð, wile folgian firenlust . . . Sió wamb bið áðened mid fylle for giéfernesse (venter ingluvie extenditur ),

      Past. 311, 2-12.

  • Gífernesse

    ingluviem (ventris),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 39.

  • Manega mettas gegladiað gýfernysse (

    gulam

    ),
      Scint. 57, 4.

  • Ic andette gífernesse ǽtes and drences, ge ǽr tíde ge ofer tíde. Ic andette ǽlce gítsunga and æfest,

      Ll. Th. ii. 262, 25.
of animals
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  • Heora (animals') willa tó nánum óþrum þingum nis áþenod búton tó gífernesse and tó wrǽnnesse

    quarum omnis ad explendam corporalem lacunam festinat intentio

    ,
      Bt. 31, I ; F. 112, 8.

  • Fræcum innoþes gýfernesse [

    draco boves) gulosa ventris ingluvie (voraciter glutire solebat ),

      An. Ox. 2445.
greed of money, cupidity, covetousness, avarice
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  • Gífernesse philargiria [cf. gitsunge

    philargiria

    (the third of the deadly sins,
      Ald. 206, 31), 96, 67
    ], Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 29; 50, 20.

  • Deóflice dǽda . . . on stalan and on strúdungan, on gítsungan and on gífernessan,

      Ll. Th. i. 310, 17.

  • Ne gé ne beón gewyrhtan stala ne strúdunga, ac strýnað mid rihte. Scyldað eów wið gítsunga and wið gífornessa . . . Scyldað eów wið gálscipas. . . , and wið oferfylle beorgað eów, Wlfst. 40, 6-13. ¶

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      Bl. H. 163, 12
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gífer-nes.” 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/50709.

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