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hoh-

  • adjective
  • prefix
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Grammar
hoh-, hog-ful; adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§117;
Mindful, careful, anxious, wise, prudent
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  • Ic nú on sibbe gesitte on mínne cynestól hohful embe ðæt hú ic his lof árǽre

    quiete pace perfruens, studiosus sollicite de laudibus Creatoris omnium occupor addendis,

      Chart. Th. 240, 8.
  • Ðá wearþ ðæt mǽden mycclum hohful hú heó ǽfre wæras wissian sceolde

    then became the maiden very anxious how she was ever to direct men,

      Homl. Skt. 2, 121.
  • Ðám ðe lufiaþ swíðor ða healícan clǽnnysse ðonne ða hohfullan gálnysse

    to those that love exalted chastity more than the wantonness which is full of care,

      Homl. Th. ii. 324, 5.
  • Hogfullum

    prudentibus,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 11, 25.
Etymology
[Laym. hoh-fulle, pl: Orm. hoȝhe-full.]
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  • hoh-, adj.; prefix