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† ˈonlepy, a. Obs. Forms: α. 1 ánlépiᵹ, -lípiᵹ, -lýpiᵹ, -lépe, (ǽn-), 2 enlepi, 3 anlepiȝ, anelepi, anilepi, 3–4 anlepi, 4 anlepe, anlep, 5 anlepy, -lypy. β. 3–4 onlepi, 3–5 onlepy, 4 onelepi, -y, oonlypi, 5 oonlepye. γ. 2 ǽlpiᵹ, 2–3 elpi, 2–4 alpi, 3 ælpi. δ. 4 olepi, olepy, olupy. [OE. ánlíepiᵹ, -lýpiᵹ, -lípiᵹ, f. án one + hlíep leap, jump, hléapan to leap, run + -iᵹ, -y. The first element underwent the same phonetic changes as án, one, to ôn-, en-, ô-, a-, æ-, e-, after the latter of which also -lipiȝ, -lepiȝ was reduced to -lpi. The form ælpiᵹ occurs even in late OE. ante 1120. The northern anlep, -lepe in 14th c. represents the OE. collateral form ánlépe: cf. ON. einhleypr.] 1. Only, sole, single. In quot. 13401 = one with. αc900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xviii. [xiv.] (MS. O), Nawcht..buton his aᵹene ᵹyrde anlipie. c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) xiii. 2 Nis nan ðe eallunga wel do, no forðon anlepe. c1175Lamb. Hom. 75 His enlepi sune. c1200Ormin Introd. 11 Fra þatt anlepiȝ treo. a1225Leg. Kath. 74 Ane kinges..anlepi dohter. c1300Havelok 2107 Her he spak anilepi word. 13..Cursor M. 9520 He had an anlepe son. βc1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 19 Ich bileue on þe helende crist, his onlepi sune. 1340Ayenb. 13 Þe holi gost..is onlepi god an[d] onlepi þing mid þe uader and þe zone. Ibid. 125 A grat lhord ssolde he by..þet þise onelepi uirtue hedde. 1382Wyclif Luke vii. 12 An oonlypi sone of his modir. 14..in Maskell Mon. Rit. II. 241, I bileue..in Ihesu Crist his oonlepye sone. γ1085–1120O.E. Chron. an. 1085 Næs an ælpiᵹ hide, ne an ᵹyrde landes..þæt næs ᵹesæt on his ᵹewrite. c1175Lamb. Hom. 29 On enelpi luttele hwile. Ibid. 33 Al heo ageð on ane alpi þraȝe. c1205Lay. 3499 Mid ane alpie swein. Ibid. 12400 ænne ælpi verde. Ibid. 31450 Nu hafde Oswald..ænne ælpine broðer. c1300Vox & Wolf 132 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 62 On alpi word ich lie nelle. δ13..Guy Warw. (A) 2237 Here is gret scorn sikerly, When þat olepi kniȝt Schal ons do so michel vnriȝt. a1400in Eng. Gilds (1870) 350 Þey he ne worche but o-lupy cloþ. b. absol. Single one, only one; darling.
c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 22 And ingunnun anlepum cweþan, ah ic hit eam dryhten. 13..Cursor M. 5996 All þe fleies ware went awai..Þat an-lepi þar was not sene. a1400Prymer (1891) 107 (Ps. xxii. 20) God delyuere my soule fro drede; and my olepy fro the howndes hond. 2. Solitary; single, unmarried.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xxx[i.]. (1890) 376 Se þa ænlepe [v.r. anlypiᵹ] wunode in syndriᵹre stowe. 13..Cursor M. 27939 Fornicacion..don wit anlep woman. c1400Apol. Loll. 38 Simple fornicacoun bi thwex an onlepy man & an onlepi womman. c1440York Myst. xiii. 40 Wele I might euere mare Anlepy life haue led. 3. as adv. Only, solely, simply.
c1315Shoreham 11 (i. 272) Olepi [me] mot hym [depe] ine the water. Hence † ˈonlepihede, singleness, singularity; † ˈonlepiliche adv., only, solely.
c1250Old Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 28 Nacht onlepiliche to day, ac alle þo daies i þo yere. 1340Ayenb. 21 Ine onlepihede, uor þe proude and þe ouerwenere weneþ more by worþ, oþer conne more þanne enie oþre. Ibid. 211 He waggeþ þe lippen onlepiliche, and makeþ semblont to spekene and naȝt ne zayþ. |