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on-gitenness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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on-gitenness, e ; f.
understanding, knowledge
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  • Hé wæs gefeónde ðære ongytenesse

    (agnitione)

    ðæs sððan Godes biganges.
      Bd. 2, 13; S. 517, 13.
  • Tó ongytenysse

    (ad agnitionem)

    ðæs sóðan
      Godes, 2, 9; S. 511, 3.
meaning, purport (cf. and-git.
)
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  • Ðeós ongitenys (þes ongitenysse, MS. ) mínre untrumnysse ys ðæt of ðisum líchaman sceal beón se gást álǽded

    the meaning of my illness is, that the spirit shall be taken away from the body,

      Guthl. 20; Gdwin. 80, 22.
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v.  -gitenness.
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  • on-gitenness, n.