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un-mann

  • noun [ masculine ]
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un-mann, es; m.
a bad man, an inhuman person
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  • Swá fela ðúsend engla mihton eáðe bewerian Crist wið ðám unmannum ( those who came to seize Jesus ), gif hé ðrowian nolde sylfwilles for ús,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 246, 30.
[Cf.
O. H. Ger. un-mennisco
:
Ger. un-mensch
:
Icel. ú-mannan a person fit for nothing.
]
one who is not a mere man, a hero
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  • Ðá gemunde hé ða strangan dǽda ðara unmanna (perhaps iumanna should be read; the Latin is: Valida priscorum heroum facta reminiscens. v. geó-, iú-mann) and ðæra woruldfrumena,

    • Guthl. 2
    • ;
    • Gdwin. 12, 27.
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