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un-meaht

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
un-meaht, -meht, -mieht, -miht, e; f.
Weakness, lack of power
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  • Heora unmiht and heora untrymð is swíðe gemanifealdod

    multiplicatae sunt infirmitates eorum,

    • Ps. Th. 15, 3.

  • Biþ geond fingras cele and cneówa unmeht,

    • Lchdm. ii. 258, 14.

  • Gif ðé þince ðæt ðú maran lǽcedóm dón ne durre for unmihte ðæs mannes,

    • 254, 1: Homl. Skt. i. 13, 21.

  • Ðá ongan ic þencan ðæt mé ðæt gelumpe for ðære wíflícan unmihte,

    • ii. 23 b, 411.

  • Ðurh unmihte,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 42, 27.

  • Hié ongietaþ hiera unbældo and hiera unmiehte (-mihte, Cott. MSS.)

    infirmitatis suae sunt conscii,

    • Past. 32
      • ;
    • Swt. 209, 8.

  • Hú magan ða cyningas forhelan hiora unmihte, ðonne hí ne magan nǽnne weorþscipe forþbringan búton heora þegna fultume?

    • Bt. 29, 1
      • ;
    • Fox 104, 13.

  • Óð unmihte,

    • Ps. Th. 106, 17.

  • Ne bióð ðæt náne mihta ðæt mon mæge yfel dón, ac beóþ unmihta,

    • Bt. 36, 7
      • ;
    • Fox 182, 28.

  • Hió his unmehta hine gemyndgaþ

    infirmitatis memoriam ad mentem revocat,

    • Past. 65
      • ;
    • Swt. 465, 32.

  • Wurþaþ hig þurh ðæs mettruman unmihta beswicene,

    • Wulfst. 285, 11.
Etymology
[Monnes unmihte hominis infirmitatem, Kath. 1022.
Goth. un-mahts
:
O. H. Ger. un-maht inbecillitas, inpotentia, infirmitas
:
Icel. ú-máttr.
]
Similar entries
v. módunmeaht.
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v.  meaht un-miht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “un-meaht.” 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/33533.

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