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moral restraint, modesty, sobriety, v. ge-healdsum ;
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  • Gehealdsumnyss inpuderatio, Scint. 225, 16. I a.

    abstinence, refraining

    from :-- Uton wé yfel forlǽtan and eft ne geed-lǽcan, þæt wé móton Gode geðeón þurh gódre gehaltsumnysse,
      Hml. Th. ii. 380, 19.
  • Þá láreówas swincað swíðor þonne ðá lǽwedan on heora gehealdsumnysse þe hí healdan sceolon,

      Hml. A. 57, 165: Hml. S. 2, 311.
  • Gif wé þá heáfodleahtras forseóþ þurh gehealtsumnysse (-heald-), 25, 699. Ib. continence, chastity :-- Gehealtsumnesse castitatis, An. Ox. 354: castimoniae, 1121: 1777:

    celibatus

    , 1395.
observance, keeping of a law, festival, &c.
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  • Fædera lára gémen and gehealdsumnes patrum doctrinarum observatio, R. Ben. 133, l : R. Ben. I. 118, l. Mid gýmene and gehealdsumnesse gódra dǽda

    observantia bonorum actuum

    ,
      3, 10.
  • Mid gehealdsumnesse þæs regoles,

      16, 6.
  • Þurh gehaltsumnysse Godes beboda,

      Hml. Th. ii. 280, 32.
  • Se Sæseternes-dæg wæs gehálgod mid micelre gehealdsumnysse, 208, Læncten-fæstenes gehealdsumnesse

    quadragesime observationem

    ,
      R. Ben. I. 84, 9.
preservation, maintenance
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  • For sóðere sibbe gehealdsumnesse (

    conservatione

    ),
      R. Ben. 5, 14.
  • Tó gehealdsumnesse gemǽnre sibbe and sóþre lufe

    propter pacis karitatisque custodiam

    ,
      125, 5.
charge, custody
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  • Ðá þá hé heóld þá gehealdsumnysse regollices lífes

    cum regularis vitae custodiam teneret

    ,
      Gr. D. 104, 3.
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v. un-ge-healdsumnes.
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