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for-wyrnednes

  • noun [ feminine ]
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for-wyrnednes, -ness, e; f.
A restraining, continence, forbidding; contĭnentia
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  • He wæs micelre forhæfdnysse and forwyrnednesse lífes

    he was of great abstinence and continence of life,

    • Bd. 3, 5
    • ;
    • S. 526, 21.
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  • for-wyrnednes, n.