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un-mǽþ

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
un-mǽþ, e; f.
Transgression, wrong.
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  • Ða discipulas wǽron on heora módgeþance swíðlíce áfyrhte and gedréfde, swá hit nǽnig fyren wæs (unmǽþ næs, MS. F. i.e.

    it was perfectly right that they should be troubled

    ),
    • Homl. Ass. 162, 234.
Etymology
[Min is þe guld and þe unmeþ,
  • Fl. a. Bl. 675.
Evrich þing mai leosen his godhede mid unmeþe and mid overdede,
  • O. and N. 352
.]
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v. mǽþ, IV
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