For-healdness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-healdness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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for-healdness
f. Incontinence, unchasteness:--Manna forhealdnessa, ꝥ is unrihthǽmed . . . Gástas ðe manna hyrtan beswícað, ꝥ is. . . forhealdnyssa gást . . . Ne gewemmað eówre líchaman ðurh forhealdnesse, Nap. 24. for-healdness
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