hiwung
Old English
editPronunciation
editNoun
edithīwung f
- shaping, forming
- shape, form, frame (of an object)
- Synonym: ġesċeap
- species, kind
- Synonym: cynn
- transformation
- illusory shape, deceptive appearance
- pretense, trick
- hypocrisy
- false speech
- irony
Declension
editDeclension of hiwung (strong ō-stem)
Derived terms
edit- gehiwung
- frumhiwung
- mōdes hīwung (“imagination”)
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “híwung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.