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wan-sceaft

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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Grammar
wan-sceaft, e; -sceafte(-a; m.?), an ; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§617;
misfortune, misery, unhappiness
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  • Hí sorge ne cúðon, wonsceaft wera, wiht unhǽlo,

      Beo. Th. 240; B. 120.
  • Ic ne wrecan meahte on wigan feore wonnsceaft míne, ac ic ealle þolige,

      Exon. Th. 499, 16; Rä. 88, 16.
  • Láð biþ ǽghwǽr fore his wonsceaftum wineleás hæle,

      329, 10 ; Vy. 32.
some form of disease
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  • Hú mon sceal ða wǽtan and wonsceafta (ða wonsceaftan in the section, 246, 6, where no other malady than ða wǽtan

    is referred to except

    ða áheardodan swilas) útan lácnian,
      Lchdm. ii. 16, 6, 22.
Etymology
[Cf. O. Sax. than wópiat thár wanskefti thie hér ér an wunnion sind, Hél. 1352.]
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  • wan-sceaft, n.