a. Of holy life. Hence † Life-holiness.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 133. Þe lif holie prest zacharie.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 142. Þet … heo holden hire up mid hore lif holinesse. Ibid., 346. To hire owune schrift feder, oðer to summe oðre lif-holie monne.

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a. 1240.  Lofsong, in Cott. Hom., 207. His ariste arere me in lif holinesse.

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1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. X. 195. Lyf-holy as eremites. Ibid., VI. 80. Lyf-holynesse and loue han ben longe hennes.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 303/2. Lyyf holy, devotus, sanctus.

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