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单词 unrede
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unreden.

Brit. /ˈʌnriːd/, U.S. /ˈənrid/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and rede n.1; also historical (chiefly in sense 2) 1800s– unred (rare), 1800s– unrede, 1900s– unrad (rare), 1900s– unraed, 1900s– unræd, 1900s– unread (rare). In sense 2 frequently with capital initial.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian unrēd (West Frisian ûnrie , ûnried ), Middle Dutch onraet (Dutch onraad ), Middle Low German unrāt , Old High German unrāt (Middle High German unrāt , German Unrat ), Old Icelandic úráð , Old Swedish oradh (Swedish oråd ), Old Danish vraadh , vrodh (Danish uråd ) < the Germanic base of un- prefix1 + the Germanic base of rede n.1Slightly earlier currency of sense 2 is implied by the following:a1210 W. Map De Nugis Curialum (1983) v. iii. 412 Rex Edelredus, quem Anglici [Nullum] Consilium uocauerunt, quia nullius erat negocii.Map's work was in large part composed 1181–2 (although he continued to make additions to it for at least a decade afterwards). Although the text of the above passage is corrupt (the word nullum is not in the manuscript), the emendation is generally accepted, neatly providing, as it does, a direct translation of Middle English unred. See further S. Keynes ‘The Declining Reputation of King Æthelred the Unready’ in D. Hill Ethelred the Unready: Papers from Millenary Conf. (1978) 227–53.
Now historical.
1. Lack of counsel or wisdom; poor or misleading advice; folly, an instance of this. Obsolete (archaic in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun]
unwisdomc825
unredeeOE
egedec1175
unwitc1175
unwisdomnessa1200
dusileca1225
dusischipa1225
folly?c1225
kangschipe?c1225
unwitshipa1250
unwisenessa1340
cornardy1340
unwithead1340
lewdness1362
nicetyc1380
sotie1390
folitya1400
follinessa1400
foolheada1400
insipiencec1422
fondnessa1425
wanwita1425
cocardyc1430
foltry1440
jopperyc1440
folliheada1450
fonning?a1475
niceheada1475
foltheadc1475
folabilitya1529
daftness1552
foolageness1563
foppery1592
guckry1596
senselessness1606
coxcombry1608
goosery1642
ineptitude1656
fopicalness1660
fopperishness1683
insagacity1808
spoonery1824
spooniness1824
noodleism1830
addle-headedness1835
foolishment1852
insapiency1876
ineptness1877
goosiness1888
inepticality1923
sappiness1943
gormlessness1958
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. xii. 111 Scipia..self sæde..þæt hit wære se mæsta unræd & se mæsta gedwola.
OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 188) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 37 God wyrcð oft micel to gode of manna unrædum þurh his micclan godnysse.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1011 Ealle þas ungesælða us gelumpon þuruh unrædas þæt man nolde him [sc. the Danes] a timan gafol beodon oþþe wið gefeohtan.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1048 Ac hit þuhte unræd eallum folce.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3995 Wale wale vn-ræd [c1300 Otho onread] mani cniht þu makest dæd.
a1300 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 82 He gredeþ þanne heye, Þe wrecches and þe vnsleye, Þat luuede þe vnredes.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1906 xii. ger or ysaac was dead Iacobes sunes deden un-red.
1872 Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 1871 17 19 A gloomier time now comes, the days of unrede and of unlaw, when the strength of England was paralysed by the misrule of Ethelred and the treason of Eadric.
2. As the epithet of Æthelred II, king of England (d. 1016). Cf. unredy adj., unready adj.2, redeless adj.Originally with punning allusion to the literal meaning of the Old English personal name Æðelred: ‘noble counsel’ (cf. athel adj. and rede n.1).Quot. 1865 is a translation of quot. c1300.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective] > of Aethelred
redelessOE
unredec1210
unready1580
c1210 (c1206) Leges Edwardi Confessoris: Version 4 (Rylands) xxxiv. §2a in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 662 Aldredus unrad.
c1300 (a1275) in J. Glover Livere de Reis de Brittanie (1865) 96 Cesti Eilred aucone genz apelent Eilred Unred; e assez proprement, sicom peust ver chescon ki ad oi de son affere.
1865 J. Glover Livere de Reis de Brittanie 97 Some persons call this Ethelred Ethelred Unred, and that fitly enough, as any one can see who has heard of his affairs.
1914 History 3 199 The emergence of a Scandinavian Empire under Cnut the Great..and his consort Queen Emma, widow of Ethelred unrede.
1945 H. G. Brown Eng. City: Bristol 3 These coins were minted at Bricgstowe..in the reign of Ethelred Unrede.
2005 J. Clements Brief Hist. Vikings viii. 163 Aethelred Unraed's attempts to organize resistance were a failure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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