uneathとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from 古期英語 unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”); equivalent to un- +‎ eath. More at eath, easy.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ʌˈniːθ/

形容詞

uneath

1. (obsolete) Not easy; hard.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book V, canto IV, stanza 22:

     who he was, uneath was to descry.

反意語

• eath
• easy

副詞

uneath

1. (archaic) Not easily; hardly, scarcely.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.

2. (obsolete) Reluctantly, unwillingly.
   • a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.

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