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† ˈthanehede Obs.
[f. thane1, in sense 1 ‘servant’ + -hede, -head. Essentially an earlier form of next, but unconnected with it in use, being founded on an earlier sense of OE. þeᵹn.]
Service, servitude; bondage, thraldom.
a1300Cursor M. 5404 (Cott.) Land and lijth wit bodi we bede, Þat þou vs tak in þin thainhede [v. rr. bonde-, bundhede]; In thainhed [Fairf. bondehede; Gött. & Trin. þraldam, -dome] tak our landes all, For sede we mai þam sau wit-all. Ibid. 5791, I sal þam [Israel] bring vte of thainhede [v. rr. þraldome, thralhede], In-till a land, a wonsun thede. Ibid. 6990 In thain-hede ar þai worth to be, Þat wil noght thole, and mai be fre. |