uneath
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”); equivalent to un- + eath. More at eath, easy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʌˈniːθ/
Adverb
uneath
- (archaic) Not easily; hardly, scarcely.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II scene iv:
- Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II scene iv:
- (obsolete) Reluctantly, unwillingly.
- 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:
- Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.
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