, -festnes, -nys, -ness, e; f. Firmness in the law, religion; religio :-- He wæs mycelre ǽfæstnesse wer he was a man of much religion, Bd. 4, 31; S. 610, 7: 2, 9; S. 510, 30, 32.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:
Bosworth, Joseph. "ǽ-fæstnes." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. Ed. Thomas Northcote Toller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. 9.