Ge-hwirfness
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-hwirfness
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- ge-hwirfness
- f. I. return, I. 4 :-- Hē wīte-gode on þām sealme be þæs folces gehwyrfnesse of heora hæftnȳde, Ps. Th. 24, arg. II. conversion; in a special sense, the adoption of the monastic life :-- Ðæt munucas āwunien in þǣre hȳrsumnesse þe hié Gode gehēhton in þā tīd heora gehwyrfnesse (-hwyrfe-, v. l. , conuersionis), Bd. 4, 5; Sch. 377, 5. ge-hwirfness