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† ˈthesterness Obs.
Forms: see thester a.
[OE. þéosternes, etc., f. þéostre, thester a. + -ness.]
Darkness. lit. and fig.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxiv. §8 Þesternes. c893― Oros. vi. ii. §3 Wearð micel þeosternes ofer eallne middanᵹeard. c1000Ags. Hom. (ed. Assmann 1889) 203 Þa com..þære nihte þysternys. c1175Lamb. Hom. 61 Þe engles a-dun follon in to þe þosternesse hellen. a1200Moral Ode 277 Eure þer is vuel smech, þusternesse and eie. c1200Ormin 16737, & menn ne lufenn nohht te lihht Acc lufenn þessterrnesse. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1942 Quiles he slep, In ðis ðisternesse, old and dep. c1300Havelok 2191 Gon was þisternesse of þe nith. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 160 On a thoresday in thesternesse þus was he taken. a1500Chester Pl. ii. 12 Twynned shalbe throughe my mighte the lighte from Thesternes. |