on ecnesse

Literally "in eternity."

• IPA^(key): /on ˈeːk.nes.se/

on ēcnesse

1. forever

• ā and simle (“(for)ever and always”)
• ā simle (“(for)ever always, always (for)ever”)
• ā tō ealdre (“for all time, for evermore”)
• ǣfre on ealdre (“emphatic ever, forever”)
• ēce (“eternally, perpetually, evermore”)
• ēcelīċe (“eternally, perpetually, evermore”)
• ēċe tō ealdre (“for all time, for evermore”)
• on ealdre ǣfre (“emphatic ever, forever”)
• tō wīdum fēore (“for all eternity”)

• simle on ēcnesse (“always forever, throughout eternity”)

• ēċe (“eternal, perpetual, everlasting”)
• ēċelīċ (“eternal, perpetual, everlasting”)

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “on ecnesse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.