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in a local sense.
nearness, neighbourhood
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  • Gif hwá feorran cóme and wolde his lác Gode offrian, dæt hé on gehendnysse (

    at hand

    ) tó bicgenne gearu hæfde,
      Hml. Th. i. 406, 23.
  • Hér on gehendnysse syndon [þá] þe þíne deórlingas beón sceoldon,

      Hml. S. 23, 147.
what is at hand
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  • Hergiendum gehwylce gehendnysse bereánendum

    grassatoribus obuia queęque uastantibus

    ,
      An. Ox. 2713.
of kinship,
relationship, propinquity
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  • Gehendnys

    propinquitas,

      An. Ox. 4180.
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