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abundantly, sufficiently
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  • Ic sylle geneahhe heora hungrium hláf tó fylle

    pauperes ejus saturabo panibus,

      Ps. Th. 131, 16.
  • I a. in a vague sense as intensive, enough (cf. assez in French), fully, quite, very (much),
with adj. or adv.
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  • Is mín feorh tó helldore hylded geneahhe

    my life is quite turned down to the gate of hell;

    vita mea in infernum appropinquavit,
      Ps. Th. 87, 3.

  • Hí ús wiðerwearde wǽron geneahhe

    they were adverse enough to us,

      123, 3: El. 1065.

  • Swég úp ástág níwe geneahhe

    (new enough,

    i. e. that had not been heard before, for Grendel had never been attacked in the hall),
      B. 783.

  • Hé hǽðengield gesóhte neóde geneahhe (

    very diligently),

      Jul. 24.

  • Georne sécan nearwe geneahhe,

      El. 1158.
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  • Þonne mé costunga cnysdon geneahhe dum tribularer, Ps. Th. 119, l. Hé þeóstra þegnas . . . nýd onsette and geneahhe bibeád

    (straitly charged them),

      Gú. 669.

  • Hreósað geneahhe tóbrocene burgweallas

    the ruined city walls fall to the ground,

      Cri. 977.
often, frequently
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  • Þá henna hire áfyrrde án fox, sé cóm geneahhe (-neahche,

    v. l.)

    náht feorran (þá henna gelómlíce áweg bær án fox cumende of þám neáhlande, v.l.),
      Gr. D. 69, 28.

  • Se deácon hæfde him tó þeáwe ꝥ hé cóm geneahhe tó Benedicte, and hé geneahhe (gelómlíce, v.l.) geneósode

    (frequentabat)

    his mynstres,
      170, 1-4.

  • Hé geneahhe férde tó heora húse,

      154, 12: Angl. xi. 99, 70: Sal. 378.

  • Heó cyrreð geneahhe, oft and gelóme,

      Rä. 32, 10: 9, 2: Deór. 32.

  • Is úre sáwl swíðe gefylled mid edwite oft and geneahhe, and ús oferhýdige forseóð oft and gelóme,

      Ps. Th. 122, 5.

  • Sendan swíðe geneahhe ofer waðema gebind wérigne sefan,

      Wand. 56.

  • Þæt þám þe his líf cúðon . . . þig geneahhor his lífes tó gemyndum cóme,

      Guth. Gr. 103, l.
constantly, assiduously, persistently
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  • Hine þá se Godes wer geneahhe (-nehhe, v.l.) þreáde and gelómlíce mynegode

    cum eum vir Dei assidue corriperet et frequenter admoneret,

      Gr. D. 155, 27.

  • Béc syndon bréme, bodiað geneahhe weotedne willan þám þe wiht hycgeð,

      Sal. 237.
  • Hé manode geneahhe bencsittende, 26.

  • Hí him on healfa gehwone ymbútan farað . . . geneahhe, Cri. 930.Ic þín sóð weorc séce geneahhe

    justificationes tuas exquisivi,

      Ps. Th. 118, 94 : 141, 2.

  • Lócað geneahhe fram þám unlǽdan hláford

    the lord persistently turns his face from the wretched man,

      Sal. 381.

  • Hé ne wandode, ac fýsde forð flána genehe

    he flinched not, but kept the shafts flying,

      By. 269.

  • Ic Drihten sóhte swýðe geneahhe

    Deam exquisivi,

      Ps. Th. 76, 2 : 85, 13.

  • Singað him sealmas swíðe geneahhe; 146, l. Swá hwylc mon swá þis godspell hæbbe on his gewealde, þæt hé hit cýðe Godes folce swýðe genehhe,

      Wlfst. 213, 28.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-neahhe.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/49011.

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