Ge-hīrsumnes
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-hīrsumnes
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-hīrsumnes
- Take here ge-hȳrsumnes in Dict. , and add: (1) obedience :-- Getīdige ūs God ꝥ wē magon eów secgan his lāre, and eów gehȳrsumnysse ꝥ gē dā lāre āwendon tō weorcum, Hml. A. 12, 310. Hwæder hē carfull sig tō godcundum weorcum and tō gehȳrsumnysse si solicitus est ad opus Dei, ad obedientiam, R. Ben. 96, 17. (2) as a technical term, the order given to a monk by his abbot; (obedientia quidquid ab abbate monachis injungitur, Migne) :-- Gif þū tō hwilcere gehīrsumnesse scapulares beþurfe, Tech. ii. 127, 18.