holdscipe

== Middle English == === Etymology === From hold +‎ -scipe. === Noun === holdscipe (plural holdscipes) loyalty, allegiance Sægdon þet hi hit dyden for ðes mynstres holdscipe. — Peterborough Chronicle, 1121 They said they did it out of loyalty to the monastery. ==== References ==== Middle English Dictionary == Old English == === Etymology === From hold +‎ -scipe. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈxoldˌski.pe/, [ˈhoɫdˌski.pe] === Noun === holdscipe m loyalty, allegiance Eallra ðæra manna land hí fordydon ðe wǽron innan ðæs cynges holdscipe ― They destroyed the lands of all those men that were in king's allegiance. (Chr. 1087; Erl. 224, 15.) ==== Declension ==== Strong ja-stem: ==== Synonyms ==== hlāfordhyldo (“loyalty”) holdrǣden (“fidelity, faithful service”) hyld (“grace, loyalty, fidelity”) rihthlāfordhyldo (“loyalty”) === References === John R. Clark Hall (1916), “holdscipe”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “holdscipe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[2], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.