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not wishing for change
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  • Éþhelde vel geþæf

    contentus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 2.
  • Gif munuc eáðhylde biþ and geþæf, þeáh híne man wácne talige

    si omni Militate contentus sit monachus,

      R. Ben. 29, 3.
not wishing change in something,
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  • Hú hé his ágene unðeáwas ongietan wille and hira geþæf bión (cf. (?) gerest ðæt mód hit orsorglíce on ðǽre fortrúwunga, 463, 10 :

    both passages refer to the same subject) how he will recognize his own faults, and yet wish for no change in them

    (? the Latin is : Infirmitatem suam quotidie quanta consideratione cognoscat),
      Past. 23, 22.
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  • And geþæf and hé bið on gewunan . . . geþeef is ꝥ ꝥ ꝥ hé gemét

    et contentus fuerit consuetudine loci quam invenerit. . . contentus est quod invenerit,

      R. Ben. 1. 101, 14-17.
  • Gehyrsnmiendre geþæfé (-þafe, Hpt. Gl. 413, 18) stilnesse

    uernacula contentae quiete.

      An. Ox, 289.
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