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Vinony

uneath

adverb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʌˈniːθ/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”); equivalent to un- + eath. More at eath, easy.

  1. Not easy; hard.

    “who he was, uneath was to descry.”

adv

Etymology: From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”); equivalent to un- + eath. More at eath, easy.

  1. Not easily; hardly, scarcely.

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

  2. Reluctantly, unwillingly.

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