f. Sobriety, moderation, temperance, abstinence, purity:--Sýfernys abstinentia, Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 7. Seó sýfernes þreáde ðæt werod cweðende ðæt hit ne fyligde ðære gálnesse sobrietas increpat acies dicens ne sequantur luxuriam, Prud. 46 a: 472-492. Seó sýfernes and óðre mægnu, 54. Rúmheortnys and sýfernys (opposed to gítsung and gífernes, 68, 15), Wulfst. 69, 1. Sýfernysse þearf sinceritatis azima, Hymn. Surt. 82, 31: Scint. 42, 16. Ðære sýfernysse (opposed to drunkenness, opposed to druncenscipe, l. 18), 145, 20: Homl. Th. i. 360, 5. Ic brúce ðisum mettum mid sýfernysse (cum sobrietate), Coll. Monast. Th. 35, 5. Began ðá his geþanc tó sýfernysse (opposed to lust, O. H. Ger. súbarnessi purificatio, purgatio.]