单词 | yernful |
释义 | † yernfuladj. Obsolete. Eager, desirous; diligent, zealous. Also: solicitous. Cf. yern adj. 1. Π eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xi. 433 Þ[u ær s]æd[est þæt ð]u swiðe geornful [L. cupidum] [w]ære [hit to] geheranne. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxvi. 307 Mid þisum wordum is geswutelod hu geornful se lareow beon sceal ymbe þa ecan teolunge. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) x. 41 Martha, Martha, geornfull [L. sollicita] þu eart & embe fela þinga gedrefed. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1631 Beo ȝeorrnfull crist to cwemenn. a1300 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 144 (MED) We schulde abute cristes lay beon yeornfulle and clybbe. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 780 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 278 Scho sa ȝarnful wes þar-til, þat scho til wildirnes has socht, & fand a derne sted, was wrocht In til a crage of angil wark. c1480 (a1400) St. Theodora 45 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 100 For he wes ȝarneful God to ples. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.eOE |
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