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Webster 1913 Edition
Uneath
Un-eath′
,Adj.
[AS.
uneá[GREEK]e
; un-
not + eá[GREEK][GREEK]
easily, easy; akin to OS. [GREEK][GREEK]i
easy, OHG. [GREEK]di
.] Not easy; difficult; hard.
[Obs.]
Who he was,
uneath
was to descry. Spenser.
Un-eath′
,adv.
Not easily; hardly; scarcely.
[Obs.]
Uneath
may she endure the flinty streets. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Uneath
UNE'ATH
, adv.1.
Not easily. [Not in use.]2.
Beneath; below. [Not in use. See Neither and Beneath.]Definition 2024
uneath
uneath
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uneath
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uneath
- (archaic) Not easily; hardly, scarcely.
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
- Who he was, uneath was to descry.
- William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
- Uneath may she endure the flinty streets.
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
- (obsolete) Reluctantly, unwillingly.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.VII:
- Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.VII: