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un-wine

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
un-wine, es; m.
An unfriend, enemy
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  • Ðæt hé mihte his unwinan unþancas dón,

      Chr. 1075; Erl. 212, 16.
  • Gif ic ongén ne cume, þat þú it néfre ne lét weldon mine unwinan æfter mé þe mid unrichte sitteð ðéron and nyttað it mé éuere tó unðanke,

      Chart. Th. 584, 10.
Etymology
[Wreken hine of his unwines, Laym. 1628. For to beon itempted of þe unwine of helle, A. R. 178, 27. Eð were ure lauerd to awarpen his unwine (diabolus). Kath. 1221. Herode wass unnwine wiþþ Filippe, Orm. 19838. Icel. ú-vinr an enemy.]
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