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 hefiġnes (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.