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un-fére

  • adjective
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un-fére, adj.
Incapacitated, disabled, infirm, feeble
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  • Se wæs Æþelstánes biscopes gespelia syððan hé unfére wæs,

    • Chr. 1055
    • ;
    • Erl. 190, 21.
Etymology
[Þa iwærð þe king unfere. Swa þe king seoc læi ... ne mihte he þer of beon hæl,
  • Laym. 6780
. Al unfer he it (Moses's leprous hand) fond,
  • Gen. and Ex. 2810.
Þat licour for to dele unto þe unfere,
  • L. H. R. 115, 277
. See also Halliwell's Dict.
Icel. ú-fœrr disabled.
]
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  • un-fére, adj.