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Old English
Etymology
From dūst (“dust”) + sċēawung (“inspection, contemplation”) (see scavage for more).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈduːstˌʃæ͜ɑː.wunɡ/,
Noun
dūstsċēawung f
- viewing or contemplation of dust
- a. 10th century, The Blickling Homilies:
- He þa swa geomor, & swa gnorngende, gewāt from þære dustsceawunga & hine þa onwende from ealre þisse worlde begangum,
- 1880, translation by Richard Morris:
He then, so sad and sorrowful, departed from the ‘dust-spectacle’ (contemplation of the dust), and turned himself away from all the affairs of this world;- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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