Ge-hīrness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-hīrness

Take here ge-hȳrnes in Dict. , and add: (1) the sense of hearing :-- Sefa sensus, gesihþ visus, gehīrnes auditus, Wrt. Voc. i. 282, 30: ii. 7, 77. Gehērnes, Bt. 41, 4; F. 252, 6. Healte men onfēngon heora gouge, and deáfe gehȳrnesse, Shrn. 137, 28. (2) hear-ing, listening :-- Manige men þā word lustlīce gehȳraþ . . . seó gehȳrnes and seó geornnes ne bid nyt on þǣm ungelȳfdum mannum, Bl. H. 55, 31, Ontȳn eárna hleóbor ꝥ mī gehērnes hehtful weorde, Ps. C. 78. Syle mīnre gehȳrnesse gefeán, þæt ic gehȳre þæt ic wylle auditui meo dabis gaudium et laetitiam, Ps. Th. 50, 9. Ic forhtige for þissere gehȳrnesse auditu paveo, Gr. D. 212, 3. Eall his lof mægen leóde gehȳran, and his gehȳrnesse hēr oncnāwan quis auditas faciet omnes laudes ejus?, Ps. Th. 105, 2. [O. H. Ger. ge-hōrnesse auditus.] ge-hirness