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Add: [The word, which occurs only as predicate of the verbs beón, weorþan, seems at least generally to be an adjective; in some instances it appears indeclinable, see the last three passages, and cf. similar adjectival forms in Icelandic.]
where there is consent to an action or a condition, acquiescence in an arrangement.
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  • Hé cwæð ðæs ðe hé gebruce, æfter his dæge hé nánum menn sél ne úðe ðonne mé: and ic ð æs ðá wæs wel geþafa,

      C. D. ii. 113, 15.

  • Mid þý wit ðæt unéðelíce þurhtugon þæt hé ðæs geþafa beón wolde

    cum hoc difficulter inpetraremus,

      Bd. 5, 4; Sch. 568, 19.

  • Hí nyllað geðáfan beón óðerra monna geðeahtes

    alienis consiliis non acquiescunt,

      Past. 305, 15.
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  • Gif his wolde mínra þegna hwilc geþafa wurðan þæt hé úp heonon mihte cuman,

      Gen. 414.
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  • þone þe byð heora leahtrum geþafa

    vitiis suis consentientem personam,

      R. Ben. 118, 7.
where the correctness of a statement is admitted.
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  • Ðises ic eom ealles geþafa,

      Bt. 32, 2 ; F. 122, 20.

  • Hí ealne þone bryce uppon þone cyng tealdon, ac hé nolde þæs geþafa beón,

      Chr. 1094; P. 229, 9.
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  • Hé geþafa beón nolde þæt hé untela dyde. Ps. Th. 9, 35.

  • Ball moncyn is ánmód-líce geþafa ꝥ God is fruma ealra góda

    Deum rerun omnium principem bonum esse communis humanorum conceptio probat animorum,

      Bt. 34, 2 ; F. 136, 1.

  • Wé sceolon beón geþafan (geþafa, v. l.) ꝥ se God sié eallra ðinga betst

    hunc esse rerum omnium praecellentissimam confitemur,

      34, 3; F. 136, 31.
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  • Þ á hí Agustines larum ne his bénum geþafa beón woldon

    cum neque precibus neque hortamentis Augustini adsensum praebere uoluissent,

      Bd. 2, 2 ; Sch. 113, 21.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-þafa.” 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/50053.

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