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girning

  • noun [ feminine ]
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girning, e; f.
desire to possess. v. girnan;
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  • Sé ná wiðsæcð middanearde, þám eorðlicre ǽhte gegladað gyrnincg

    is non renuntiat mundo, cui terrenae possessionis delectat ambitio,

      Scint. 59, 12.
  • Gyrnninge

    cupiditatis,

      An. Ox. 5289.
  • Fram middaneardes gyrninge fæstað

    a mundi ambitione ieiunant,

      Scint. 53, 18.
desire for doing. v. girnan;
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  • Hié beóð onǽlede mid ðǽre gierninge (girn-, v. l.) ðára smeáunga Godes wísdómes ánes

    solius contemplationis studiis inardescunt,

      Past. 45, 17.
desire expressed in words, petition, prayer
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  • Gyrninge (

    desiderium) þearfana gehýrde [Dryhten], gyrnenga (desideria )

    heortan heora gehýrde eáre his,
      Ps. Rdr. 9, 38.
  • Drihten sylð ðé gewilnunga ł gyrningce ł béna (

    petitiones

    ) heortan þínre,
      Ps. L. 36, 4.
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v. ge-girnung.
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v.  geornung.
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  • girning, n.