hrepung
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxre.punɡ/, [ˈr̥e.puŋɡ]
Noun
hrepung f
- touch, touching
- c. 992, Ælfric, "THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE LORD'S EPIPHANY"
- Mihtiglice he mihte mid his worde hine gehælan, buton hrepunge; ac he geswutelode þæt his hrepung is swiðe halwende geleaffullum.
- In his might he could have healed him with his word, without touching; but he manifested that his touch is very salutary to believers.
- Crist mid his handa hrepunge þone hreoflian gehælde, swa eac he alysde us fram ure sawla synnum ðurh anfenge ures flæsces; swa swa se witega Isaias cwæð, "Soðlice he sylf ætbræd ure adlunga, and ure sarnyssa he sylf abær."
- Christ by the touch of his hands healed the leper, so also he redeemed us from the sins of our souls by the assumption of our flesh; as the prophet Isaiah said, "Verily he took away our diseases, and our pains he himself bare."
- c. 992, Ælfric, "THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE LORD'S EPIPHANY"
- the sense of touch (one of the five senses)
- c. 992, Ælfric, "ON THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY"
- Ure yfelan geðohtas oððe weorc we sceolan alysan mid fif scyllingum; þæt is we sceolon ure yfelnysse behreowsian mid urum fif andgitum, þæt synd gesihþ, and hlyst, and swæc, and stenc, and hrepung.
- Our evil thoughts or actions we should redeem with five shillings; that is, we should repent of our wickedness with our five senses, which are, sight, and hearing, and taste, and smell, and touch.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "ON THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY"
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: reopunge, repunge, repung
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