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the mental action, condition, or habit of trusting to a person or
thing, trust, faith
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  • Þín ágen geleáfa þe hæfþ gehǽledne

    fides tua te saluum fecit,

      Bl. H. 15, 27: Mk. 10, 51: Lk. 18, 41.

  • Þín geleáfa (

    belief in thee

    ) on úrum móde þurhwunige,
      Hy. 6, 8.

  • Þone gefeán þe þú mid geleáfan tó mé geearnodest,

      Bl. H. 63, 28.

  • Heó áhte trumne geleáfan tó þǽm Ælmihtigan,

      Jud. 6: 345.

  • Hé getrymede heora geleáfan,

      Bl. H. 17, 8.

  • Gif wé willaþ on Drihten gelýfan . . . wé sceolon þone geleáfan mid gódum dǽdum gefyllan,

      23, 10.

  • Ne hí on gewitnesse hæfdon on hiora fyrhðe fæstne geleáfan

    nec fides habita est illis in testamento ejus,

      Ps. Th. 77, 36.

  • Ꝥ hí rihtne geleáfan habban on þone sóðan God,

      Ll. Th. i. 326, 12: 372, 33.

  • Beran in breóstum beorhtne geleáfan, Gú. 770. I a.

    belief in God, Christian faith

    :-- Hé lǽrde þá leóde on geleáfan weg,
      An. 1682.

  • Þám þe ic lífes ofonn, leóhtes geleáfan,

      Jul. 378.

  • Hé hí tó geleáfan onbryrde,

      Bl. H. 107, 2.

  • Leóde lǽran ꝥ hí lifgen on geleáfan,

      Dóm. 49.
mental acceptance of a statement or
fact
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  • Hé wæs þurh þæs mæssepreóstes láre on fullum geleáfan heofonríces

    de vitae aeternitate securus,

      Ors. 6, 34; S. 290, 12.

  • Hý him sylfum séllan þúhton þonne Críst; gelugon hý him æt þám geleáfan,

      Hy. 4, 56.

  • Þá men þá þe Godes ríces geleáfan habbað

    the men who believe in God's kingdom,

      Bl. H. 55, 17; 77, 4.

  • Heó geleáfan nóm þæt hé þá bysene from Gode brungen hæfde,

      Gen. 650.
what is believed, the proposition or
set of propositions held true; the doctrines of a religious system
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  • Geleáfa se geleáffulla þes is ꝥ . . .

    Fides catholica haec est ut . . .,

      Ath. Crd. 3.

  • Án is geleáfa, án is fulwiht, án fæder éce,

      Hy. 11, 8.

  • Þæs geleáflican geleáfan

    catholice fidei,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 56.

  • Ne gelýfe ic nó ꝥ hit geweorþan mihte . . . and ic nó ne wearþ of þám sóþan geleáfan

    nec umquam fuerit dies, qui me ab hac sententiae ueritate depellat,

      Bt. 5, 3; F. 12, 6.

  • Hé wolde þone Xp̃es geleáfan (-lǽfan,

    v. l.

    ) geryhtan,
      Chr. 680; P. 38, 9.

  • Monega þeóda Crístes geleáfan (

    the Christian religion

    ) onféngon,
      Ll. Th. i. 58, 1: El. 491.

  • Ꝥ hé cunne rihtne geleáfan understandan,

      Ll. Th. i. 372, 23.

  • Bodiað beorhtne geleáfan

    preach the gospel,

      Cri. 483.
a formal statement of doctrines believed, a creed
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  • Hér is geleáfa and gebed . . . Pater Noster on Englisc . . . Se lǽssa créda,

      Hml. Th. ii. 596, 1-11.
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v. un-geleáfa.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-leáfa.” 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/48587.

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