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leóht-brǽdness

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Substitute: Wantonness, levity, frivolity
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  • Þonne ys se óeth;er heáfodleahter gecweden gífernes . . . of þǽre bið acenned ungesceád bliss and sceandlicnes and leóhtbrǽdnes and ídelsprǽc

    (inepta laetilia, scurrilitas, levitas, vaniloquium),

      Verc. Först. 168.

  • Gálre leóhtbrǽdnesse

    petulantis lasciviae,

      An. Ox. 4706.

  • Hý hý georne bewerian wið leóhtbrǽdnesse ídelra worda and unnyttra gebǽra

    subtrahat corpori suo de loquacitate, de scurrilitate,

      R. Ben. 76, 19.

  • Uton forlǽtan . . . gálnysse and sceandlicnessa and leóhtbrǽdnessa and ídele sprǽca and ealle unclǽnnessa,

      Verc. Först. 167, 6.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “leóht-brǽdness.” 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/54521.

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