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careful, that takes care or
pains
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  • Emhýdi, hohful

    zelotypus

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      An. Ox. 2277.

  • Hé sí gewordan hohful

    reddatur de suis ratiociniis sollicitus

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      R. Ben. I. 17, 7.

  • Hohfullum (carefullan, R. Ben. 72, 12) bréðer betǽce þás gímene

    solicito fratri injungat hanc curam

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      80, 15.
thoughtful, prudent
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  • Sum sácerd . . . hohful on móde (cf.

    edoctus monitis,

      Vit. Cuth. poet. c. 30), Hml. Th. ii. 152, 6.
anxious, troubled
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  • Hé bið oððe untrum oððe hohfull,

      Hml. S. 12, 84 : Wlfst. 142, 6.

  • Ne beó ðú hohful, lá wíf, þín sunu leofað,

      152, 19.

  • Hé ðá swíðe hohful wearð and feól tó his fótum flówendum teárum (cf. provolutus ejus pedibus fusis cum gemitu lacrimis. Vit. Cuth. c. 28),

      Hml. Th. ii. 152, 10.
  • Nelle þú leng beón hohful be þínre déhter. Hml. S. 33, 290.
denoting anxiety
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  • Ǽmtig wamb and gyrla hohfull Drihten bitt

    inanis venter et habitus luctuosus Dominant deprecatur

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      Scint. 43, 5.
persistent, per-severing. Cf. hogian;
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  • Þá þá se munuc lange þurhwunode on þǽre ánwilnysse, þá cwæð se hálga tó þám hohfullum munece. Hml. S. 31, 1084.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hoh-full.” 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/52927.

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