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ge-eácnung

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conceiving, conception.
in active sense
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  • Þá æfter þan wǽron gefylde nigan mónað hire geeácnunge, þá cende Anna hyre dohtor,

      Hml. As. 125, 282.
  • Þ hé bodige hire geeácnunge,

      Bl. H. 143, 24.
in passive sense
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  • Sci Iohannis geeácnung,

      Shrn. 133, 26.
what is conceived
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  • Hyre geeácnung (or
l ?) is of ðám Hálgan Gáste (quod in ea natum est de Spiritu Sancto est, Mt. l, 20), Hml. As. 135, 630. Wíf seó þe tó ǽwyrpe gedó hire geeácnunga on hyre hryfe mulier quae utero conceptum excusserit,
    Ll. Th. ii. 154, 15.
parturition, birth
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  • Swilc gedafenað geeácnung

    talis decet partus Deum,

      Hy. S. 43, 32.
  • Wið ꝥ wíf hrædlíce cenne . . . Sóna swá eall seó geeácnung gedón beó,

      Lch. i. 218, 23.
  • Geeácnungum

    partubus,

      An. Ox. 3136.
what is born
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  • Þú Alýsend . . . geeácnung mǽdenes

    Redemptor . . . partus virginis,

      Hy. S. 41, 34.
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