Ge-healdsumnes

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-healdsumnes

Add: I. moral restraint, modesty, sobriety, III :-- Gehealdsumnyss inpuderatio, Scint. 225, 16. I a. abstinence, refraining from :-- Uton wē yfel forlǣtan and eft ne geed-lǣcan, þæt wē mōton Gode gedeón þurh gōdre gehaltsumnysse, Hml. Th. ii. 380, 19. Þā lāreówas swincad swīdor þonne dā lǣwedan on heora gehealdsumnysse þe hī healdan sceolon, Hml. A. 57, 165: Hml. S. 2, 311. Gif wē þā heáfodleahtras forseóþ þurh gehealtsumnysse (-heald-), 25, 699. Ib. continence, chastity :-- Gehealtsumnesse castitatis, An. Ox. 354: castimoniae, 1121: 1777: celibatus, 1395. II. observance, keeping of a law, festival, &c. :-- Fædera lāra gēmen and gehealdsumnes patrum doctrinarum observatio, R. Ben. 133, l : R. Ben. I. 118, l. Mid gȳmene and gehealdsumnesse gōdra dǣda observantia bonorum actuum, 3, 10. Mid gehealdsumnesse þæs regoles, 16, 6. Þurh gehaltsumnysse Godes beboda, Hml. Th. ii. 280, 32. Se Sæseternes-dæg wæs gehālgod mid micelre gehealdsumnysse, 208, Læncten-fæstenes gehealdsumnesse quadragesime observationem, R. Ben. I. 84, 9. III. preservation, maintenance :-- For sōdere sibbe gehealdsumnesse (conservatione), R. Ben. 5, 14. Tō gehealdsumnesse gemǽnre sibbe and sōþre lufe propter pacis karitatisque custodiam, 125, 5. IV. charge, custody :-- Ðā þā hē heóld þā gehealdsumnysse regollices līfes cum regularis vitae custodiam teneret, Gr. D. 104, 3. v. un-ge-healdsumnes. ge-healdsumnes

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