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発音

• IPA: /jeˈdreː.fed.nes/, [jeˈdreː.ved.nes]

名詞

ġedrēfednes f (nominative plural ġedrēfednesse)

1. trouble; disturbance
2. confusion; tribulation
   • The Anglo-Saxon version of the story of Apollonius of Tyre

     Đā ġewearþ hit þæt þǣs mǣdenes fōstormōdor intō þām būre ēode, ⁊ ġesēah hī ðār sittan on miċelre ġedrefednesse, ⁊ hire cwæð tō, "Hwiġ eart þū hlæfdiġe swā ġedrefedes mōdes?"

     It happened that the girl's foster mother came into the room and saw her sitting full of confusion, and said to her "Lady, why are you so troubled of mind?."

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, quoting "Circumdederunt me gemitus"

     Dēaþes ġeōmerunga mē beēodon, and helle sārnyssa mē beēodon, and iċ on mīnre ġedrefednysse Drihten clypode, and hē of his hālgan temple mīne stemne ġehyrde.

     The moaning of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell surrounded me, and in my distress I called out to the Lord, and from his holy temple he heard me.

3. offense; scandal

語形変化

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関連する語

• ġedrēfnis
• ġedrōfednes

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ĠEDRĒFEDNES”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ĠEDRĒFEDNES supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.