bradnes

Meaning

1. surface

   Superficiēs: "sumes þinges brādnes."

   Superficies: "the surface of something."

   c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

2. breadth

3. extent (space or area to which something extends)

   Ūre eorðlīċe nyht soðlīċe cymð þurh ðǣre eorðan sċeade, þonne sēo sunne gǣð on æfnunge under þyssere eorðan, þonne bȳð ðǣre eorðan brādnys betweox us ⁊ þǣre sunnan wē hyre lēoman lyhtinge nabbað, oð ðæt hēo eft on ōþerne ende up āstihð.

   Our Earthly night only comes through the shade of the Earth in the evening when the sun goes under the Earth. When the extent of the Earth is between us and the sun, we do not have the illumination of its shine until it comes up over the other end.

   c. 994, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year

Declension