þester

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Old English þīestre.

Pronunciation

Adjective

þester (primarily Early ME)

  1. Dark, gloomy; not providing or giving off much light or brightness.
  2. Black or blackish; darkly coloured or shaded, swarthy.
  3. (rare) Immoral, salacious religiously ignorant, of laity.
  4. (rare) Incomprehensible, vague, or lacking detail.
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Noun

þester (uncountable) (primarily Early ME)

  1. The state or quality of being dark; lack of light or brightness.
  2. Misery, despair, wanhope.
  3. (rare) Religious torment or torture; the fires of hell.
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Etymology 2

From Old English þēostrian, þȳstrian.

Verb

þester

  1. Alternative form of þestren
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