forgægednes
Old English
Etymology
From forgǣġan (“to transgress”) + -ed (past participle suffix) + -nes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /forˈɡæː.jed.nes/
Noun
forgǣġednes f
- transgression
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- Sēo tīd onġinð on ðisum Sunnandæġe, nigon wucon ǣr Ēastron, and ġeendað on ðām Saternesdæġe þǣre Ēasterlīċan wucan: tō ðām dæġe sind heonon ġetealde hundseofontiġ daga; and þæt Israhela folc, for heora māndǣdum and forgǣġednyssum, wurdon ġehergode, and hundseofontiġ ġēara on Babilonisċum þēowdōme, buton blisse and myrhðe, wunodon.
- This time begins this Sunday, nine weeks before Easter, and ends on the Saturday in the week of Easter: to that day, from here, are seventy days; and the Israelites, for their evil deeds and transgressions, were taken captive, and spent seventy years living in slavery to the Bablyonians, without joy or mirth.
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Declension
Strong ō-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | forgǣġednes | forgǣġednessa, forgǣġednesse |
| accusative | forgǣġednesse | forgǣġednessa, forgǣġednesse |
| genitive | forgǣġednesse | forgǣġednessa |
| dative | forgǣġednesse | forgǣġednessum |
References
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “for-gǽgednys”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.