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godspell-bodung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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godspell-bodung, e; f. Gospel-preaching, the period during which the gospel has been preached, the Christian dispensation. Cf. god-spell; <b>I a</b>
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  • Seó ealde ǽ and wítegan wǽron oð Ióhannes tócyme; siððan ongann godspelbodung (

    lex et prophetae usque ad Iohannem; ex eo regnum Dei euangelizatur,

      Lk. 16, 16), Hml. Th. i. 354, 16.
  • Æt him ongann seó godspellbodung,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 12, 16.
  • Iúdas Machabéus is eall swá hálig on ðǽre ealdan gecýðnysse swá swá Godes gecorenan on ðǽre godspelbodunge,

      Hml. S. 25, 682.
  • Wé sceolan mid earfoðnyssum ꝥ éce líf geearnian, and seó earfoðnys ongan on ðǽre godspellbodunge,

      16, 241.
  • Seó ealde ǽ getácnode godspelbodunge under Godes gife. Þreó tída sind on ðysse worulde ... óðer is seó ðe wæs under ǽ; seó ðridde is nú æfter Crístes tócyme. Þeós tíd is gecweden 'under Godes gife.' Hml. Th. i. 312, 28.
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  • godspell-bodung, n.