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Old English · noun

forgægednes

Normalised forgǣġednes

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
strong ō-stem
IPA
/forˈɡæː.jed.nes/
Syllables
for · ˈɡæː · jed · nes (4 syllables)
Modern English
transgression

Meaning

  1. transgression

    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

All forms (4)

Etymology

From forgǣġan (“to transgress”) + -ed (past participle suffix) + -nes.

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