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unˈbold, a. ? Obs.
Forms: α. 1 unbeald, 3 onbald, 1, 3–6 un-, vnbald (4 -baald, -balde), 6, 9 Sc. unbauld; 4–5 un-, vnbolde, 4, 6 onbolde, 6–7 vnbould. β. 4–5 un-, vnbelde.
[un-1 7. Cf. OHG. unbald.]
Lacking in boldness; deficient in self-confidence or energy; timid, bashful; backward, slow.
αc897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xl. 289 He for his monnðwærnesse aslawað, & wierð to unbeald. a900Cynewulf Juliana 427 Wende ic, þæt þu þy wærra weorþan sceolde..& þy unbealdra. c1205Lay. 16306 Þer fore maȝen Bruttes beon muchele þe vnbaldur [c 1275 onbaldere]. Ibid. 28159 Þa weoren Bruttisce men swiðe vnbalde uorþæn. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xxxvi. 100 When we shule suen thy wounde blede, to speke thenne we bueth unbolde. 13..Minor Poems of Vernon MS. xxxvii. 172 As a lord schalt þou be cald, Þer oþure schul stonde behynde vnbald. c1460Lament. Virg. in Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 206/2 But whan he lyste they were on slepe, For to wakyn they were unbolde. c1480Henryson Thre Deid Pollis 8 (Bann. MS.), Off thy self, man, thow may be richt vnbald. 1530Palsgr. 632, I make unbolde or shamfull. Ibid., Twenty honest women can nat make her onbolde agayne. 1611Florio, Inaudace, vndaring, cowardly, fearefull, vnbould. 1825Jamieson, Unbauld, humble, self-abased, Clydes[dale].
β13..Sir Beues (A.) 47 Man, whan he falleþ in to elde, Feble a wexeþ and vnbelde Þourȝ riȝt resoun. 13..Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv. LVII. 277 Whon þis Monk com to feir elde To worchen ouht he was vnbelde. a1470Harding Chron. ccix. iii, The which the duke of Burgoyn wold haue weld, Because to hym they were so vnbelde, Theim to haue slayn. |