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the action of touching with the hand or other part of the body,
exercise of the faculty of feeling
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  • Godes ængel ꝥ cweartern geopenode mid his handa hrepunge,

      Hml. S. 4, 234.

  • Ic gesyngode on gesihðe . . . and on hrepunge,

      Angl. xi. 112, 16.

  • Repunge,

      102, 87.

  • Wé sceolon áwendan úre handa and ealne líchaman fram fúllicum and leahterlicum hrepungum, Hml. Th. ii. 374, 7. I a.

    sexual contact :-- Clǽne hrepunga flǽsclicre mundus contactu carneo, Hy. S. 42, 37. I b. (medical) examination by feeling

    :-- Án æþele lǽce . . . cúðe tócnáwan, gif hé cunnode þæs mannes, be his ǽdrena hrepunge hweðer hé hraðe swulte,
      Hml. S. 3, 569.
the sense of touch
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  • Þá fíf andgitu sint gehátene þus, Uisus, ꝥ is gesihð . . .

    tactus

    hrepung oððe grápuug, on eallum limum, ac þeáh gewunelícost on þám handum,
      Hml. S. 1, 199.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hrepung.” 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/53190.

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