hefignes
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hefiġnes f (nominative plural hefiġnessa)
- heaviness, slowness, weight, grief, affliction, dullness of the body or senses
- burdensomeness, oppressiveness, oppression
- trouble, difficult matter
- disease
Declension[edit]
Declension of hefignes (strong ō-stem)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hefigness”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.