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un-weorþlíc

  • adjective
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un-weorþlíc, adj.
of little value or importance, humble
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  • Ða hláfordas and ða recceras scoldon ðencean ymb ðæt hélícuste and ða underðióddan scoldon dón ðæt unweorðlícre

    a subditis inferiora gerenda sunt, a rectoribus summa cogitanda,

    • Past. 18
    • ;
    • Swt. 131, 10.
that has little honour, not famous or splendid, poor
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  • Hié lange wǽron ðæt dreógende ǽr heora áðer mehte on óþrum sige gerǽcan, ǽr Alexander late unweorðlícne sige (a by no means famous victory) gerǽhte

    commissoque praelio diu anceps pugna tandem tristem pene victoriam Macedonibus dedit,

    • Ors, 3, 9
    • ;
    • Swt. 134, 8.
ignoble, disgraceful, infamous
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  • Mid ðý unæþelan gydde vel unweorþlícan

    cum infami eulogio,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 43.
  • God ða mǽstan ofermétto geniðrode mid ðære bismerlícestan wrace and ðære unweorðlícostan (

    tormenta turpia

    ),
    • Ors. 1, 7
    • ;
    • Swt. 38, 5.
Etymology
[ȝif þu art unwurðlich (of little account),
  • H. M. 33, 1I.
Þe man þoleþ þet he by uoulliche ydraȝe, and ase person onworþlych (v.
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unweorþ, II
),
  • Ayenb. 132, 35.
Icel. ú-virðiligr contemptible.
]
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