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† Unlief. World English Historical Dictionary

† Unlief. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1926, rev. 2022. † Unlief a. Obs. [OE. unléof (UN-1 7.), = MDu. (Du.) onlief, OHG. unliup, unleub, MHG. unliep (G. unlieb), ON. úljúfr, Goth, unliubs.] Not dear or valued; disliked, distasteful, unpleasant.

1 c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 189. Ðe lichame … and þe gost … fliten and winnen bitwenen hem, þat al þat is on unlef and unqueme, hit is þat oðer iqueme.

2 c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 2949. Therfore saintes to seche and to sere halowes,… it ledis vnto laithnes and vnlefe werkes.

3 1430–40.  Lydg., Bochas, I. i. (1544), 2. Theyr … unware mischief … It was to them ful uncouth and unlefe.

4 a. 1500[?].  Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.), I. 42. To all men thou shalbe unleffe,… And over all sette at naughte.

5 1513.  Douglas, Æneid, XII. xiii. 48. Sustenand thus … euery stres, baith lesum and onleif.

6 a. 1596.  Sir T. Chaloner, in Harington’s Nugæ Ant. (1804), II. 379. Nat so unleef, that I shold wysh To be thy Trojan wyfe.

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