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ge-witnes

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
ge-witnes, -ness, e; f.
knowledge, cognisance, witness, testimony
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  • Oððe ðeós gewitness weorðeþ on heágum

    si est scientia in excelso,

    • Ps. Th. 72, 9
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  • Búton Godes willan and búton his gewitnesse

    without God's will and without his knowledge,

    • Bt. 39, 9
    • ;
    • Fox 212, 13
    • :
    • Gen. 31, 27, 31
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  • Gif he stalie on gewitnesse ealles his hírédes

    if he steal with the cognisance of all his household,

    • L. In. 7
    • ;
    • Th. i. 106, 16
    • :
    • L. C. S. 76
    • ;
    • Th. i. 418, 12
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  • Wundorlíc is ðín gewitnes

    mirabilia testimonia tua,

    • Ps. Th. 118, 129, 24
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  • He wearþ gemyndig his gewitnesse

    memor erit testamenti sui,

    • 110, 4
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  • Ne yfel gewitnes ne wrégde

    nor had evil witness accused them,

    • Blickl. Homl. 163, 1
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  • Be leásre gewitnesse

    of false witness,

    • L. C. S. 37
    • ;
    • Th. i. 398, 9
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    • L. Ath. i. 10
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    • Th. i. 204, 22
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  • On hyra gewitnesse

    they being witnesses,

    • Gen. 23, 9
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  • On Moyses bóca gewitnesse

    by the testimony of the books of Moses,

    • Blickl. Homl. 153, 5
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  • Ðæt is to gewitnesse ðæt hit him ne lícode

    that is for a testimony that they did not like it

    ,
    • Past. 21, 6
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    • Swt. 165, 13
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    • Hat. MS
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  • In gewitnisse hiora

    in testimonium eorum,

    • Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 10, 14
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  • Iohannes cýþ gewitnesse be him

    Iohannes testimonium perhibet de ipso,

    • Jn. Bos. 1, 15
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  • At ðis gewitnesse wæs seo kining Offa

    at this witnessing was king Offa,

    • Chr. 777
    • ;
    • Erl. 55, 12
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used of persons
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  • Ic Æthelmǽr gewitnys

    I Æthelmær am witness,

    • Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 351, 12-18
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    • iv. 206, 6-9
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  • Wynflæd gelǽdde hyre gewitnesse ðæt wæs Sigeríc arcebiscop, etc.

    Wynflæd brought her witnesses, they were archbishop Sigeric, etc.,

    • Th. Chart. 288, 3
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    • 539, 31
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  • Here ealre ðe hér bé gewitnesse

    of all those that here are witnesses,

    • Chr. 675
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    • Erl. 39, 21
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  • Ymb huæd we willnias gewitnesa

    quid desideramus testes,

    • Mk. Skt. Lind. 14, 63
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  • Forðam arison ongeán me leáse gewitnessa

    quoniam insurrexerunt in me testes iniqui,

    • Ps. Th. 26, 14
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    • Hy. 7, 94
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    • Hy. Grn. ii. 289, 94
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  • Beforan gewitnessum

    before witnesses,

    • L. In. 25
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    • Th. i. 118, 13
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Etymology
[See Grm. R. A. pp. 608, 779.]
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v.  witness.
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