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† unˈleeful, a. Obs.
[un-1 7.]
Not permissible or allowable; illicit.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. pr. iii. (1868) 154 Þe whiche þinge to trowen on god I deme it felonie and vnleueful. c1386― Pars. T. ⁋593 The wounde shal nat departe from his hous whil he vseth swich vnleueful [v. rr. vnlefful, vnlieful] sweryng. 1449[see next]. c1491Chast. Goddes Chyld. 25 Her rest was full short by cause it was..unlefull. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 157/2 The thinges nowe forbeden vs, and therfore to vs vnleful. 1547Boorde Brev. Health xxvii. 16 b, Desyre to eate rawe and unlefull thynges, as women with chylde doth. 1567Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 524 That pretendit and unlefull mariage.
Hence † unˈleefulness. Obs.
1382Wyclif Wisd. xiv. 8 The maumet..is cursid,..and he that made it, for he forsothe wroȝte vnleefulnesse. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. i. 136 Ech such doable thing..is in it silf neither leeful neither vnleeful, in eny of the ij. no seid maners of propre taking leefulnes and vnleefulnes. c1475Cath. Angl. 212/1 (A.), To do Vnlefulnesse, illicebrare. |