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that takes care of, is protective of
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  • Gif hé bið ákenned on .xxiiii. nihta, sé bið geswincfull on his lífe. Gif hé bið on .xxv. nihta, sé bið gehealtsum his lífes,

      Lch. iii. 158, 14.
that is careful of property, saving, not given to spending, frugal
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  • Ðy lǽs se hneáwa and se gítsigenda fægnige ðæs ðætte menn wénen ðæt hé sié gehealdsum on ðǽm ðe hé healdan scyle oððe dǽlan

    ne cor tenacia occupet, et parcum se videri in dispensationibus exultet

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      Past. 149, 18.
exercising restraint, modest, virtuous, sober: — Wíf hálig and gehealdsum mulier sancta et pudorata, S. int. 225, 16.] Þá wǽron hálige bisceopas gehealtsume (-heald-, v. l.) on þeáwum (cf. I Tim. 3, 2 : Tit. I. 8). IIIa,
continent
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  • Geheald[sume]

    caelibes

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      An. Ox. 665.
safe, inviolate
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  • For gehealdsumere side[ful-nesse]

    pro pudicitia conservanda

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      An. Ox. 2666.
  • Gehealtsumestre

    integerrime (virtutis ),

    4511.
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v. un-gehealdum.
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