uneath

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1. obsoleteNot easy; hard.

   who he was, uneath was to descry.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 22

alternative obsolete unneth · alternative obsolete unnethe · alternative obsolete unnethes · alternative obsolete uneth · alternative obsolete unethe · alternative obsolete unneath · alternative obsolete unnethes · alternative obsolete unnethis · alternative obsolete unethes · alternative obsolete uneathes

1. archaicNot easily; hardly, scarcely.

   Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.

   1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]

2. obsoleteReluctantly, unwillingly.

   Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.

   1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC