Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete With difficulty. See
uneath .
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Examples
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Those skins be as red as blood, and they shine so bright against the sun, that unnethe no man may behold them.
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And the men have thin beards and few hairs, but they be long; but unnethe hath any man passing fifty hairs in his beard, and one hair sits here, another there, as the beard of a leopard or of a cat.
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And from him cometh out smoke and stinking fire and so much abomination, that unnethe no man may there endure.
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And I trow, that unnethe should any country have so much people within him, as lay slain in that vale as us thought, the which was an hideous sight to see.
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And they cast themselves to the sea bank of that isle so great plenty and multitude, that no man may unnethe see but fish.
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Right so Sir Launcelot departed with great heaviness, that unnethe he might sustain himself for great dole-making.
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In the meanwhile that they thus stood talking together, therein came twelve nuns that brought with them Galahad, the which was passing fair and well made, that unnethe in the world men might not find his match: and all those ladies wept.
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Then ever Sir Tristram smote down knights wonderly to behold, what upon the right hand and upon the left hand, that unnethe no knight might withstand him.
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Beale Isoud he was ravished so that he might unnethe speak.
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So they came upon Sir Launcelot suddenly, and unnethe he might put upon him his helm and take his horse, but they were in hands with him; and then Sir Launcelot gat his spear, and rode through them, and there he slew a knight and brake a spear in his body.
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