For-wirnedness

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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for-wirnedness
f. Restraint, continence, abstemiousness :-- Hé þá fægerestan bysene forlét, þæt hé wæs micelre forhæfdnesse and forwyrnednesse lífes saluberrimum abstinentiae uel continentiae exemplum reliquit, Bd. 3, 5; Sch. 202, 11. Hé hæfde forwyrnednesse on his líchoman ǽghweðer ge on mete ge on hrægle ge on ághwylcum þinge, Bl. H. 219, 29. for-wirnedness
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