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† unˈnait, a. and adv. Obs.
[un-1 7, 11 b + nait a. Cf. ON. úneyt-r useless, incapable.]
Useless, unprofitable, vain.
a1250Ancr. R. 130 Siggeð þet ȝe beoð unnute [Trin. MS. unneite] þrelles. a1300Cursor M. 23566 If þai a-noþer heuen wroght, It war vnnait and al for noght. a1340Hampole Psalter xxviii. 7 Þa þat..gas agayn til besynes of þe warld & vnnayte thynge. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 29 Folk þat haþ foule lippis, foulid wiþ vein speche and unnayt. c1400Rule St. Benet (Prose) 9 Wicke þohtis do oway..; and gete yure muþes fra unait wordis.
b. As adv. Unprofitably, vainly.
a1300Cursor M. 5976 ‘Do wai,’ þai said, ‘þou speckes vnnait’.
Hence † unˈnaitlike adv., -ness, -ship. Obs.
a1300E.E. Psalter xxxviii. 15 Vnnaitlike to-droued ilke man is. Ibid. xl. 6 Vnnaitnes Spake he, his hert samened to him wicnes. a1300Cursor M. 10135 For-þi rede i þaim þat yee here..And leue your vnnaitschip a quile. |