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Wright's OE grammar
§43; §112; §383; §563;
Add: held, heldu.
kindness, affection, good will
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  • For hylde arid lufe affectu, Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 65. I a. good will towards a benefactor, gratitude :-- Ðonne hé his ælmessan dǽld. . . ne giéme hé hwelce hylde hé mid ðǽre ælmessan gewriexl

    ne impensae gratiae vicissi-tudinem reguirant,

      Past. 323, 18.
of the relation between lord and man.
the favour, grace of a lord (human or divine) shown to the man
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  • Æfter þǽm eall þeós worold geceás Agustuses . frið and his sibbe; and eallum monnum nánuht swá gód ne þúhte swá hié tó his hyldo becóme, and ꝥ hié his underþeówas wurden

    Agustus cunctis gen-tibus una pace compositis,

      Ors. 5, 15 ; S. 250, 18.

  • Oft ágyltað ðá hláfordas and ðá menn wuniað on Godes hyldo

    plerumque offendunt qui regunt, et in patrisfamilias gratia permanent qui reguntur.

      Past. 321, 3.

  • Hé ús eft laðude tó his hyldo

    ad recuperationem nos gratiae vocavit,

      407, l.
    Hete hæfde hé æt his hearran gewunnen, hyldo hæfde his ferlorene, Gen. 301.
the loyalty, devotion of the man to the lord
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  • Sægde Clitus for ealdre hyldo (

    from devotion to his old lord (Philip)

    ) þæt Philippus máre hæfde gedón þonne
      Alexander, Ors. 3, 9; S. 130, 28.

  • Þám be egsan his healdað mid hyldo,

      Ps. Th. 84, 8.

  • Hí lybbaðon écnysse mid þám heáhfæderum for heora hylde wið God,

      Hml. S. 25, 740.

  • Ic þé mín gehát, . . . hyldo gylde

    vota tua quae reddam

    ,
      Ps. Th. 55, 10.

  • For eówrum hyldum þé gé mé symble cýddon,

      Ll. Th. i. 276, 19.

  • Ic wæs ðínum fæder fullíce hold on móde and on mægene, and ðé ǽfre on fullum hyldum hold and on fulre lufe, C. D. iv. 301, l. (2 a) on hyldum

    (with gen.) as the vassal or officer

    of a person :-- Hé fór on þæs cynges heldan (in loco regis, Florence of
      Worcester, Chr. P. ii. 282) uppon heora bróðer, Chr. 1095; P. 230, 18.

  • His mæg Eádgár hé þǽr on þæs cynges Willelmes heldan tó cynge gesette, 1097; P. 234, 15. (2 b)

    devotion

    to the service of a lord :-- Hire hyrdeman ðurh holdrǽdene sume ác ástáh, and his orf lǽswode . . . and hé hearde feóll, gewát of worulde tó Gode for ðǽre hylde his hirdrǽdene,
      Hml. Th. ii. 150, 33.
in adjuration, or affirmation, swearing, where the possession of the lord's favour is connected with a course of action
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  • Swá ic áge Pharaones helde, ne farað gé heonon

    per salutem Pharaonis non egrediemini hinc.

      Gen. 42, 15.
  • ' Ic hálsige eów for þæs Cáseres helda ꝥ gé mé secgon hwæðer hé of forligere sig ácenned. ' Hig cwǽdon: ' Hyt nys ná on úre ǽ álýfed tó swerigenne, and swá ðéh swá wé þæs Cáseres helda habban móton and swá wéé

  • Gecýþe seó gewitnysse ꝥ on Godes helde and on hláfordes (the Latin versions have in fide (fidelitate) Dei et domini sui; per sacramentum), ꝥ heó him on sóðre gewitnysse sý (

    for the forms of oaths see

    pp. 178 sqq.),
      Ll. Th. i. 388, 23.

  • Gehýrde hé hú þá menn him betwýnan sprǽcon and oft and gelóme Crístes helda swóron (

    swore by Christ ?

    ),
      Hml. S. 23, 529.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. held.]
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v. rihthláford-hyldu.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hyldu.” 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/53696.

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