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un-efn

  • adjective
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un-efn, -efen, -emn, -emne(?); adj.
Unequal, unlike, dissimilar, diverse, irregular
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  • Hú ðǽr wæs unefen racu unc gemǽne, ic onféng ðín sár ðæt ðú móste gesǽlig mínes éþelríces neótan,

    • Exon. Th. 89, 20
      • ;
    • Cri. 1460.

  • Dysigra monna mód bið suíðe unemn and suíðe ungelíc ... Ac ðara monna mód bið suíðe unemn, for ðæm hit gedéð hit self him selfum suíðe ungelíc for ðære gelómlícan wendinge, for ðæm hit nǽfre eft ne bið ðæt hit ǽr wæs

    cor stultorum dissimile erit ... Cor vero stultorum dissimile est, quia, dum mutabilitate se varium exhibet, numquam id, quod fuerat, manet,

    • Past. 42
      • ;
    • Swt. 306, 12-18.

  • Sume word synd gehátene anomala oþþe inequalia. Anomalus is unemne, inequalis ungelíc,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 32
      • ;
    • Zup. 199, 3.

  • Ða unefne ł ungelíco burna woegas

    diversos rivulorum tramites,

    • Mt. Kmbl. p. 2, 9.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “un-efn.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/32899.

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