The act or process of halssing; a solemn adjuration or command.
From halse (verb) with the gerund/noun-forming suffix -en, common in Germanic languages to create abstract nouns from verb stems.
The -en suffix creating nouns from verbs is pure Germanic heritage, still alive in German (essen → das Essen). This word preserves a grammatical pattern that's mostly vanished from English.
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