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unˈdear, a.
[OE. undeore (see un-1 7 and dear a.1), = MDu. ondiere, -dure, -duyr (older Du. ondier), OHG. undiuri, -tiuri (MHG. untiure), ON. údýrr (Icel. ódýr).]
†1. Of little value or estimation; worthless, cheap. Obs.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. lvii. 439 He nemde ða undiorestan wyrta ðe on wyrttunum weaxe. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 130 Uile ualet, undeor hit is. a1225Ancr. R. 408 Vndeore he makeð God, & to unwurð mid alle, þet for eni worldliche luue his luue trukie. a1300Cursor M. 16034 Parfai, pilate, wel þou aght to hald him ful vn-dere.
2. Not dear; not regarded with affection.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 168 So hasty, dearest Madam—And so slow, undearest Sir, I could have said. 1790F. Burney Diary V. iv. 182 Adieu, my dear friends! Adieu—undear December! 1881A. R. Ellis Sylvestra II. 76 One art Sylvestra gained, not undear to her,..the getting-up of ‘small linen’. |