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ge-hende

  • adjective
  • adverb
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ge-hende, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§434; §553; §559;
Near, at hand; prope
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  • Sumor is gehende

    æstas est prope,

    • Lk. Bos. 21, 30
    • .
  • Godes ríce is gehende

    Dei regnum est prope,

    • 21, 31
    • :
    • Gen. 19, 20
    • :
    • Exod. 2, 12
    • :
    • Deut. 31, 14
    • .
  • Hí wǽron swá gehende ðet ǽgðer heora on óðer háwede

    they were so near that each of them looked on the other,

    • Chr. 1003; Erl. 139, 8
    • .
  • Ða mynstra gehendor ðam wæterscipe timbrian

    to build the monasteries nearer to the water,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 160, 32 : i. 106, 19
    • .
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Word-wheel

  • ge-hende, adj.; adv.