† wiseheden.
Obsolete. rare.
Wisdom.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [noun]
righteousnesseOE
snoterc950
witnessc950
wisdomOE
insightc1175
witc1175
smeighnessc1200
sleighta1300
witternessa1300
inwitc1305
wittiheadc1315
wisenessc1320
witterheda1325
wisehede1340
slyness1357
sapience1377
wisdomhood138.
prudencea1382
sapienta1400
sentencec1400
advice?a1439
sophyc1440
profunditya1500
wittiness1543
Minerva1601
depth1605
Sophia1649
visionariness1817
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 68 Zuyche uolke þet wylleþ him benyme his lhordssip and his wyshede.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 65 The ouerest wysehede.
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n.1340- in one's senses
- in one's seven senses
- in one's shirt
- in one's shirtsleeves
- in one's shoes
- in one's sight
- in one's sights
- in one's skin
- in one's socks
- in one's spite
- in one's stocking feet
- in one's sulks
- in one's teeth
- in one's time
- in one's tracks
- in one's true light
- in one's turn
- in one's van
- in one's visage
- in one's waistcoat
- in one's way
- in one's wielding
- in one's worst looks
- in one'the pelt
- in one'the pots