Middle English Dictionary Entry
unūsāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | unūsāǧe n. |
| Etymology | From ūsāǧe n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Lack of use, disuse.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.7.56 : To the whiche nacyons…what for defaute of unusage and entrecomunynge of marchandise, nat oonly the names of synguler men ne may nat strecchen, but eek the fame of citees ne may nat strecchen.