wissung

By surface analysis, wissian +‎ -ung

• IPA^(key): /ˈwis.sunɡ/, [ˈwis.suŋɡ]

wissung f

1. guidance, direction, teaching
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Hī ferdon, þurh wissunge þǣs Hālgan Gāstes, tō ðām earde þe is ġehāten Persida, and þǣr ġemetton ðā tweġen drȳmen, Zaroen and Arfaxað, þe ætflugon ðām apostole Mathēō, of ðǣra Silhearwena lande...

     Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, they went to the land known as Persia, and there encountered the two sorcerers Zaroen and Arfaxath, who had fled from the apostle Matthew in Ethiopia...

2. rule, authority

Strong ō-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wissung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.