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un-cýððu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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un-cýððu, un-cýððo; indecl.: -cýðð, e; f.
ignorance
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  • Ne spræc hé ( Moses) hit nó forðýðe his mód áuht genierwed wǽre mid ðære uncýððe ðæs síðfætes

    neque enim Moysi mentem ignorantia itineris angustabat,

    • Past. 41
    • ;
    • S. 304, 17,
  • Mín sceal of líce sáwul on síðfæt, nát ic sylfa hwider, eardes uncýðþu (in ignorance of the land to which it is bound ),

    • Exon. Th. 284, 22
    • ;
    • Jul. 701.
a country not one's own, a strange land
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  • Siþþan se éþel úðgenge wearð Adame and Euan ... ðá hý on uncýððu scofene wurdon, on gewinworuld,

    • Exon. Th. 153, 18
    • ;
    • Gú. 827.
[Þe soule is her in uncuððe ... and nout eðcene hwuch heo schal iwurðen in hire owune riche. Þet fleshe is her et home,
  • A. R. 140, 17-20
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  • un-cýððu, n.