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Definition of Nithings
1. nithing [n] - See also: nithing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nithings
Literary usage of Nithings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Layamons Brut, or, Chronicle of Britain: A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of by Layamon, Wace, Society of Antiquaries of London (1847)
"It may perhaps be an error for tujen, to$tn, pa. t. pi. v. 1671. ttal.—In A.-Norman,
estal. See Roquefort. v. 1672. beard.—Instead of " nithings gesture, ..."
2. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"And now was seen the difference " •- \ \ between the brave men and the
infamous (nithings). Now fled from the battle those who loved it not. ..."
3. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"CHAP, given their lives for their lord. And now was seen the difference XXu-
between the brave men and the infamous (nithings). ..."
4. The Story of Grettir the Strong by Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris (1900)
"for sorcery and practising heathen rites, and the ' nithings-deed ' of slaying
a man already dying, and is banished from the land. ..."
5. The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest by Thomas Hodgkin (1906)
"And now was seen the difference VVTT between the brave men and the infamous (nithings}.
Now fled from the battle those who loved it not. ..."
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