scrift
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin scrīptum. Cognate with German Schrift (“font, writing, script”), Dutch schrift (“script, notebook, scripture”), Swedish skrift (“text, written work, book, report, script”) and Icelandic skrift (“writing”).
Noun[edit]
sċrift m
- what is prescribed as punishment; penalty
- penance, shrift
- one who passes sentence; judge
- a confessor (in Christianity, one who hears confession)
Declension[edit]
Declension of scrift (strong a-stem)
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sċrift”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.