Middle English Dictionary Entry
unhōld(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | unhōld(e adj. |
| Etymology | OE unhold; for sense (b) cp. OE unholda fiend. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Unfriendly, hostile; of an event: disastrous; ?also, as adv.: in an unfriendly way [last quot.];
(b) as noun: unfriendly or hostile people.
Associated quotations
a
- a1350 Middelerd for mon (Hrl 2253)44 : Of gomenes he mai gon al gelde…lest he to harmes helde ant happes hente vnholde.
- a1350 Middelerd for mon (Hrl 2253)45 : Hom vnholdest her is on wiþouten helle.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)936 : Marke schuld ȝeld vnhold, Þei he were king wiþ croun, Þre hundred pounde of gold.
b
- a1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)36 : Monies monnes sare iswinc habbeð oft unholde.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)115/18 : Vnholde forfreten þe strengðe of his sawle & he hit nawt nuste.
- a1275 Wenne þin eyen (Trin-C B.14.39)2 : Þu maist ifinden feole vnholde þat willt striuen afteir þine seluere & þine golde.