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to confess, acknowledge wrong-doing, weakness, &c.
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  • Geondeton (

    confitentes

    ) synna hiora,
      Mt. L. 3, 6.

  • Geandet swá hwætt swá þú þáron wite,

      Ll. Lbmn. 414, 34. I a. as an
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  • Þæt hié heora synna cunnon onrihtlíce geandettan,

      Bl. H. 43, 16.

  • Hit geandettan and bétan,

      Wlfst. 34, 17.

  • Búton hit ǽr geandet and gebét wǽre,

      25, 15.
reflex.
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  • Þǽm mannum þe heora synna and unrihtes geswícaþ, and hié (or hié

    may refer to

    synna) Gode and heora scriftum geandettiaþ,
      Bl. H. 193, 23.
to admit for oneself in assertion,
concede, allow
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  • Ðe ilca geondete lomb niomende synno middangeardes

    ipsum fatetur agnum tollentem peccata mundi

    ,
      Jn. p. 3, 6.

  • Geondate (giondetted. R.) confessus est, Jn. L. l, 20. ꝥ ðá ídlo hiá . . . geondetad sint

    ut inutiles se . . . fateantur

    ,
      Lk. p. 9, 7.
to confess, declare one's belief that
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  • Gif hwelc hine giondette (geondetate, L.) Críst

    si quis eum con-fiteretur Christum

    ,
      Jn. R. 9, 22.

  • Sé ðe ðe ilca Godes suna bið geondetað

    qui eum Deifilium confitetur

    ,
      Jn. p. 3, 10.
to confess a person or thing,
acknowledge as having a certain character, declare one's faith in
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  • Mannes geþanc þé geandet,

      R. Ben. 24, 17.
  • Sé ðe geondetas meh before monnum. Mt. L. 10, 32.

  • Sel folcum crístinum ðá ðe giondetað (

    quae profitentur

    ) tó ongeattanne,
      Rtl. 15, 15.
to make acknowledgement of a benefit to a person, give thanks or
praise
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  • Ðió giondet-ade (geonditteð, L.) Drihtne

    haec confitebatur Domino

    ,
      Lk. R. 2, 38.

  • On niht árísan and Drihtne geandettan,

      R. Ben. 40, 14.
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v. un-geandett.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-andettan.” 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/47042.

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