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† unˈmight Obs.
[OE. unmiht, -meht (un-1 12), = WFris. on-, ûnmacht, MDu. (Du.) onmacht, MLG. unmacht (LG. unmagt), OHG. (MHG.) unmaht (G. unmacht), Goth. unmaht-s; cf. also ON. úmáttr, MDa. umagt.]
Want of might or strength; weakness, feebleness.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxii. 208 Ðonne hie onᵹietað hiera unbældo & hiera unmihte, hie weorðað oft ormode. c1200Vices & Virtues 129 For þan euel to done nis non strencþe, ac is unmihte. a1290Becket 1408 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 146 For mine sunnes and for mine onmiȝte, þat I ne may hire wardi nouȝt. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15564 An heuinesse, a gret vnmight, On Cadwalyn gan to lepe. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxii. (Justin) 205 Þe vnmycht of my compere, Þat to spede had na powere. c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) v. xiv. 108 In hym is feblesse and grete vnmyght. 1429Rolls of Parlt. IV. 343 Grete myght on that o syde, and unmyght on that other. |