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handfast

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Definitions

  1. A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.

Word origin

From Middle English hondfast, past participle of Middle English hondfesten (“to betroth”), from Old Norse handfesta (“to strike a bargain, pledge”), itself from hönd (“hand”) + festa (“to fasten, fix, affirm”), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European root *pHst-.

Used in a sentence

  • And the remembrancer of her to hold The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that
  • Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; […]
  • A vyrgine made handfast to Christ.

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