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watchful care, taking charge, taking care that a thing be not damaged
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  • þám mynstre fore wæs mid geornlicre heordnysse

    monasterio solerti custodia praefuit,

    • Gr. D. 52, 15
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  • On hú mycelre Godes heordnysse

    (custodia)

    beóð þá þe cunnon hí sylfe forseón on þysum lífe,

    • 39, 30
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  • Þá þá hé nam þá hyrdnysse (hiordnisse, v. l.) þæs regollican lifes in þám mynstre

    cum in monasterio regularis vitae custodiam teneret,

    • 104, 2
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a watch, guard to prevent evil
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  • Ic gesette mínum múþe heordnesse

    posui ori meo custodiam

    • R. Ben. 21, 11
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a watch, period during which watch is kept:
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  • -þúsend geára ... swá swá heordnes

    (custodia)

    on nihte,

    • Ps. Rdr. 89, 4
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  • Fram heordnesse dægredlicre oð on niht

    a custodia matutina usque ad noctem,

    • 129, 6.
a place for keeping things in
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  • Hig gesetton þá burh on æpplena hyrdnesse

    posuerunt Hierusalem in pomorum custodiam,

    • Ps. L. 78, 1
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Cf. heord-rǽden.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hird-ness.” 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/52549.

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