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ge-þafung

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Wright's OE grammar
§373;
Add: ge-þeafung.
permission
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  • Ne hé nán þing næbbe bútan þæs abbodes sylene and geþafunge

    ae quicquam liceat habere quod abbas nan dederit out nan permiserit,

      R. Ben. 57, 5.
  • Búton se abbod him geþafunge

    (permissionem)

    sylle,
      69, 6.
submission to action,
toleration, Cf. ge-þafian;
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  • Verbum is word, and word getácnað weorc oððe ðrowunge oþþe geþafnnge . . . þrowung byð þonne ðú cwyst, verberor ic eom beswungen . . . Geþafung byþ ðonne ðú cwyst,

    amor

    ic eom gelufod,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 9, 2-7.
consent
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  • Ús is gecynde ðæt wé ǽlc yfel on ðrió wísan ðurhtión : ðurh gespan and ðurh lustfulnesse and ðurh geðafunga

    (consensu) . . .

    Sió geðafung bið ðurh-togen ðurh ðone gǽst . . . mid ðǽre geðafunge wé bióð gebundne,
      Past. 417, 19-31.
  • Mid ðǽre geðafunga ðæs unryhtes

    consentiendo perversis,

      351, 21.
  • Mid geþeafunge Crístes geleáfan

    cunctis adnuentibus fidei,

      Bd. 3, 22 ; Sch. 292, 15.
  • Swá hwæt swá hý bútan his leáfe dóþ and his geþafunge

    quod sine patris splritalis fiat voluntate,

      R. Ben. 77, 4: 3.
  • Wé þá geðafunga þæs drynces dóð

    consentiamus ut . . . bibamus,

      65, 1.
  • On geþafunge gán to consent :-- Gif hé on geþafunge gǽð si

    consenserit,

      R. Ben. 103, 3 : 119, 15.
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