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ge-hírness

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Take here ge-hýrnes in Dict. , and add:
the sense of hearing
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  • Sefa sensus, gesihþ visus, gehírnes

    auditus

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      Wrt. Voc. i. 282, 30: ii. 7, 77.

  • Gehérnes,

      Bt. 41, 4; F. 252, 6.

  • Healte men onféngon heora gouge, and deáfe gehýrnesse,

      Shrn. 137, 28.
hear-ing, listening
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  • Manige men þá word lustlíce gehýraþ . . . seó gehýrnes and seó geornnes ne bið nyt on þǽm ungelýfdum mannum,

      Bl. H. 55, 31,
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  • Syle mínre gehýrnesse gefeán, þæt ic gehýre þæt ic wylle

    auditui meo dabis gaudium et laetitiam

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      Ps. Th. 50, 9.

  • Ic forhtige for þissere gehýrnesse

    auditu paveo

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      Gr. D. 212, 3.

  • Eall his lof mægen leóde gehýran, and his gehýrnesse hér oncnáwan

    quis auditas faciet omnes laudes ejus?

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      Ps. Th. 105, 2.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-hórnesse auditus.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-hírness.” 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/48308.

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