Ge-swicennes

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-swicennes

Add: I. cessation from doing, a leaving off of a practice, II. abstaining from doing again what has been given up. v. ge-swícan; III :-- Gif hé ágylte, hé hit georne gebéte and syððan geswíce; for ðí ne bið nán bót náht búton þǽr beó geswicenes, Hml. Th. i. 268, 22. ge-swicennes

Related words: ge-swícan; 1 :-- Beháte hé ǽrest bóte and geswicenesse ealra þǽra unþeáwa þe hé fore ádrǽfed wæs, R. Ben. 53, 10. Hé synna forgyfð þám ðe mid dǽdbóte dóð geswicennysse, Hml. A. 1. 17. þone bisceop hé geteohhade mid teónan tó forseónne. Hé behét þá geswicennysse þám bisceope, Hml. S. 31, 678. Seó sóðe behreówsung and dǽdbót mid geswicennyssum yfeles ús áþwyhð, 12, 144.