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un-weorþness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
un-weorþness, e; f.
Indignity, contempt, disgrace
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  • Mid unweorðnesse

    dedignatione,

    • Past. 37
    • ;
    • Swt. 265, 18.
  • Hé his ríce mid micellre unweorðnesse and mid micelre uniéðnesse gehæfde,

    • Ors. 6, 24
    • ;
    • Swt. 276, 1.
  • Hé his onféng mid micelre unweorðnesse

    a quo arrogantissime exceptus est,

    • 6, 30
    • ;
    • Swt. 280,12.
  • Ða wón wyrd ǽgþer ge on ðara unrihtwísra anwealda heánesse, ge on mínre unwurþnesse and foreseuwenesse,

    • Bt. 5, 1
    • ;
    • Fox 10, 22.
Etymology
[Onworþnesse (despit) is wel grat zenne,
  • Ayenb. 19, 35.
O. H. Ger. un-werdnissa contempt.
]
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v.  weorþness.
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  • un-weorþness, n.