scyldwreccende

Old English

Etymology

sċyld (“guilt”) +‎ wrecende (present participle of wrecan (“to punish”))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃyld.wrek.ken.de/, [ˈʃyɫd.wrek.ken.de]

Adjective

sċyldwreccende

1. (poetic) punishing guilt (used to describe hell)

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “scyld-wreccende”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.