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praiseworthy, deserving praise or approbation
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  • Hergendlic

    probabilis,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 31
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  • Ic wolde beón gehered þeáh ðe ic herigendlic nǽre,

    • Angl. xi. 113, 49
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  • Se man nǽre herigendlic, gif hé for þí ne syngode þe hé ne mihte; ac hé wǽre hérigendlic, gif hé ne syngode þá þá hé mihte . . . drecð deófol mancyn mid costnungum, ꝥ þá be-ón hergendlice and hálige þe him wiðstandað

    magnae laudi non esset, si ideo homo non peccasset, quia male facere non potuisset . . . genus humanum ex insidiis diaboli tentantur, ut ex eo virtus tentati probetur, et palma non consentientis gloriosior appareat,

    • Angl. vii. 24, 225-229
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  • Hé gewilnode ꝥ hé hæfde herenesse þæs clænan lífes, ac hé nolde in him habban ꝥ hergendlic (heriend-, v. l.) líf

    (laudabilem vitam),

    • Gr. D. 117, 34.
that deserves to be celebrated or eulogized:
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  • Hí wuldrodon þá hergendlican þrynesse and sungon Godes lofsang,

    • Hml. S. 30, 452
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  • Hergendlice mé wǽron ðíne ryhtwísnessa

    cantabiles mihi erant iustificationes tuę,

    • Ps. Vos. 118, 54
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  • Ðás herigendlicestan gehwyrfednysse . . . þǽre árwurðan Marian,

    • Hml. S. 23 b, I.
having qualities that deserve praise, excellent:
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  • Ðeós wyrt is tó þám herigendlic ꝥ hý man wið gewune drenceas gemencgeað,

    • Lch. i. 172, 6
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that expresses praise, that praises
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  • Heriendlic

    fauorabile, i. laudabile (praeconium),

    • An. Ox. 2774
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  • Hergendlice,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 34. 6
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  • Swá swá sume men gewuniaþ ꝥ hí singað mid hergendlicum cræfte ǽr há etan

    (the translator has misunderstood the Latin, which is: Sicut quidam ludendi (laudandi seems to have been read) arte victum solent quaerere),
    • Gr. D. 62, 13
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v. ge-herigendlic, un-herigendlic.
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v.  heregend-líc heregend-líc bodiend-lic.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “herigend-lic.” 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/52423.

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