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unˈskill
[un-1 12 and 4 b. Cf. ON. and Icel. úskil, óskil (Norw. dial. uskil, etc., MSw. oskiäl, etc., Sw. oskäl, MDa. uskæl, Da. uskel, in sense 1 or 1 b).]
†1. Improper or foolish conduct; folly; wrongdoing; wrong. Obs.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 65 Lauerd forȝef us ure unskile, and alswa we alle oðre wile. c1275XI Pains Hell 58 in O.E. Misc. 148 [He] þat..nolde leten his fleysses wil, Ac folewede al þat wes vnskil. c1300Cursor M. 201 How Iuus wit þer gret vnschill Wend his vprisyng to dill. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 8798 Ȝyf þou dedyst euer þat vnlawe,..Þou hast synned yn moche vnskyl. c1420Sir Amadace (Camden) lxvii, I wille do the no vnskille, Thou schalt dele hit atte thi wille, The godus that here now is. a1500Ratis Raving i. 1033 Bot always serf hyme elyk,..Bot gif he do the al wnskill.
†b. Want of reason; unreasonableness. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 415 If we taken hede to þingis þat touchen þis staat, we moun fynde fulli unskil in ech of hem. a1500Ratis Raving i. 1269 It louis weill to leif be wyll, And callis resone oft vnskill.
†2. with unskill:
a. Wrongly, wrongfully, improperly. (Also with at.) Obs.
c1200Ormin 427 Swa we don itt wiþþ unnskill Þatt itt maȝȝ anngrenn oþre. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3506 Ne slo ðu noȝt wið hond ne wil, Ne rend, ne beat noȝt wið vn-skil. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12643 Ȝif y ha lore hit at vnskyle, Y schal hit wynne eft when God wyle. c1330King of Tars 712 So long i wis hit is agon, I have ilived in prison of ston, With wrong and muchel unskille.
†b. Unreasonably, excessively. (Also with till, to.) Obs.
c1220Bestiary 433 He bit us don ure bukes wille, eten and drinken wið unskil. a1300Cursor M. 26991 Hop es god at hald wit houe, Bot til [Fairf. to] vnskil noght worth a gloue. 13..Guy Warw. 514 After þe hete me comeþ a chele, Þat me greueþ wiþ vn-skele.
3. Lack of skill; inexpertness; † ignorance (of something). Now arch.
1565Martial in Harding Answ. to M. Ivelle's Challenge A 3 b, Where the faultes of the printers be infinite for the vnskill of the language. 1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent 293 I..doe preferre plaine vnskill and ignorance, before vaine lying and presumptuous arrogance. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 276 That even light Pirrhon's wavering fantasies Reave him the skill his un-skill to agnize. 1611Florio, Inarte, vnartnesse, ignorance, vnskill. 1905J. Brierley Eternal Relig. 100 Hence more and more the idea will prevail that ignorance, unskill in things,..is in itself a kind of lower morality. |