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ólehtung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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ólehtung, e; f.
flattering, adulation
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  • Þám móde, þe biþ ábysgod in manigum þingum, swíþe undercreópeð seó leáse ólehtung (liffetung,

    v. l.) occupato in multes animo adulatio valde subrepit,

      Gr. D. 35, 15.
  • Þurh þá ólehtinga þára preósta,

      40, 19.
what pleases the senses, pleasing condition or
process
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  • Sóna se líchoma sceal bión unfæger, þonne hé mid unrótnesse and mid sáre áseted bið, þá cumað of þǽre (þám, MS. ) líðan ólehtunge (from a life of sensual ease) . . . Gemunað þá þe eall hira líf on þisse worulde on ólehtungum lifedon (

    lived in sensual pleasures),

      Verc. Först. 170.
  • Eáwlá, wíf, tó hwan wenest ðú þínes líchoman hǽle mid smyringe and oftþweále and óðrum líðnessum? Of ðám cymeð unhǽlo, nales mægen. Gif þú þá ilcan ólectonge þám líchoman [dó, hit ná] híwfægere bið, þonne hit ǽr wæs, 166.
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  • ólehtung, n.