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abundant, plenteous, being in great quantity
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  • Cóm reng micel and genihtsum

    descendit pluuia copiosa,

      Bd. 4, 13; Sch. 419, 10.

  • Eówer lufu is suíðe genyhtsumu

    caritas vestra abundat,

      Past. 213, 12.

  • Wæs gold swá genihtsum and seolfor swá stánas ofer eorðan,

      Angl. xi. 8, 27.

  • Syb genihtsum abundantia pacis, Ps. Th. 71,

      7. [Genihtsum affatim, Wrt. Voc. ii. 2, 25. v. ge-nyhtsumlíce.
    ] Genihsumre wennę

    opulenti luxus,

      An. Ox. 11, 44.

  • Of genihtsumum edhwyrfte

    exuberante reditu,

      8, 67.

  • Of genihtsumere

    sumtuosa, copiosa (alimonia ),

    1840.

  • Genihtsume

    fertilem (praedam ),

    110.

  • Þá genihtsumestan

    uberrimam (facundiam ),

      9, 12.

  • Þá genihtsummestan áfundenessa uberrima experimenta, 81. ¶ beón (wesan) genyhtsum to be abundance :-- On þínum torrum wese genihtsum

    fiat abundantia in turribus tuis,

      Ps. Th. 121, 7.

  • Bið on þínes húses hwommum genihtsum

    abundans in lateribus domus tuae,

      127, 3.
abounding in, having in large quantity
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  • Genihtsum (genihtsumnes?) þæs yfeles

    copia,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 22, 18.

  • Is þín milde mód genihtsum

    tu copiosus misericordia,

      Ps. Th. 85, 4.

  • Þæt hé dó his ðeówan ríce for worulde, genihtsume on welan,

      Hml. Th. i. 64, 17.

  • Mid þǽm genihtsumestan

    opimis,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 60.
giving or
providing in abundance
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  • Bloedsunga ginyhtsum ondǽlend

    benedictionum largus infusor,

      Rtl. 103, 38.

  • Bringð folcum genihtsum Blótmónað eádignesse,

      Men. 194.

  • Heora sceáp wǽrun swíþe genihtsum

    oves eorum abundantes,

      Ps. Th. 143, 17.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-nyhtsum.” 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/49092.

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