wliteleas
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wlitelēas
- ugly, uncomely, hideous
- Dēoful ætȳwde wann and wlitelēas
- The devil appeared dark and hideous
- and swā ānlīce and wlitelēase wǣron his þēawas þæt sēo weard ne cūðe būtan sēon þæt hīe sum dēofolgyld him ful uncūð onfundene hæfdon
- and so singular and hideous were the rites connected with it, that the warden could not but realise that they had stumbled on a dark cult totally unknown to them
Declension
[edit]Declension of wlitelēas — Strong
Declension of wlitelēas — Weak
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wliteleás”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.