Middle English Dictionary Entry
unhaving(e ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | unhaving(e ppl. |
| Etymology | From hā̆ving(e , ppl. of hā̆ven v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Not having (sth.), lacking; also glossing L carens.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1333/3 : Chese hatte, caseus, as it were, carens, ‘vnhauyng’, for somtyme chese is drye and vnhauynge moysture and liquore.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)192/5738 : When þat y partid yow away, Vnhauyng spase vnto yow to dissewre, What payne departyng did vnto me lay.