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having faith, or
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  • Hé wæs Gode geleáffull on his heortan,

      Shrn. 76, 21.
having the Christian faith, Christian
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  • Blissian nú eall geleáffull folc, for þon þe for ús Crístes blód wæs ágoten,

      Bl. H. 91, 7.

  • Godes ðeówas hí wurðiað on geleáffulre gelaðunge,

      Hml. Th. ii. 560, 2.

  • Of geleáffullan cynne heó wæs ásprungon,

      Chr. 1067; P. 202, 18.
  • Ꝥ wíf bið gehálgad þurh geleáffulne wer, 15.

  • Se eosel þe Críst on sittan wolde tácnaþ ꝥ geleáffulle folc Judéa (

    those of the Jews that believed on him

    ),
      Bl. H. 79, 30.

  • Ealle geleáffulle men all Christians, 35, 9. II a. used substantively in pl.,

    believers, Christians, the faithful

    :-- On þǽre gesihðe wesað ealle geleáffulle,
      Bl. H. 13, 28: 81, 16.

  • Mid geleáffullum hé gefylde þysne middangeard,

      11, 8.

  • Heó bróhte eallum geleáffullum éce hǽlo,

      5, 30.

  • Óþrum geleáffullumteala dón,

      75, 18.
catholic, orthodox
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  • Geleáfful

    catholicus, rectus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 54.

  • Þone geleáffullan geleáfan

    catholicam fidem,

      Ath. Crd. 1.

  • Seó emniht is on .xii.[^m]ᵃ kl. April., swá swá þá geleáffullan rǽderas (

    orthodox scholars

    ) hit gesetton,
      Lch. iii. 256, 21.

  • Geleáfulra

    catholicorum (patrum ),

      An. Ox. 172.

  • Geleáf[ulra]

    orthodoxorum,

    4574.
of the church; substantively in pl.,
ecclesiastics
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  • Ofermódinesse geleáf[ulra]

    insolentiam ecclesiasticorum,

      An. Ox. 5302.
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v. riht-geleáffull, un-geleáffull.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-leáfful.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/48588.

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