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un-sǽlig

  • adjective
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Grammar
un-sǽlig, adj.
of persons, unhappy, unblest, miserable as being evil
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  • Deófol sǽwð unwísdóm, ðæt unsǽlig man wísdómes ne gýmeþ,

    • Wulfst. 52, 27.
  • Ðú miltsige mé ( a devil ), ðæt unsǽlig (ic) ne forweorþe,

    • Exon. Th. 269, 14
    • ;
    • Jul. 450.
  • Hí ( the good) fore góddǽdum blissiaþ, ða hý (the wicked ) unsǽlge ǽr forhogdun tó dónne,

    • 79, 9
    • ;
    • Cri. 1288.
  • Hæleð unsǽlige (

    the unbelieving Jews

    ),
    • Andr. Kmbl. 1122
    • ;
    • An. 561.
of things, unhappy, bringing misery
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  • Æppel unsǽlga (cf. Milton: the fruit whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe),

    • Cd. Th. 40, 10
    • ;
    • Gen. 637.
Etymology
[Þe unseli Semei,
  • A. R. 174, 1.
Hwa se is swa unseli, þat he þis soð schunie,
  • Kath. 1793.
Unnseliȝ mann amm ic wurrþenn,
  • Orm. 4812.
Ðat folc unseli (the people of Sodom),
  • Gen. and Ex. 1073.
Unsely wrecche,
  • Chauc. second N. P. T. 468.
O. H. Ger. un-sálig infelix.
]
Similar entries
v. un-gesǽlig.
Linked entries
v.  un-gesǽlig.
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