† enaunterconj.
Obsolete. rare.
In case that; lest by chance.
ΚΠ
c1307 Coer de Lion 484 Enantyr hym tydde swylk a chaunce.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Eviv That therefore the Skottes must be..reddie at all occasions, in aunters the Englyshe men shoulde sturre neuer so litle.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 200 Anger nould let him speake to the tree, Enaunter his rage mought cooled bee.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xiii. 101 For your foote amphibracchus..ye haue these wordes and many like to these [rĕsīstĕd] [dĕlīghtfŭll] [rĕprīsăll] [ĭnaūntĕr] [ĕnāmĭll].
1589 Mar-Martine 5 For men of litrature t'endite so fast, them doth not sitte, Enaunter in them, as in thee, thair pen outrun thair witt.
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conj.c1307- unreclaimable
- unreclaimably
- unreclaimed
- unreclaimedness
- unreclaiming
- unreclining
- unrecognisable
- unrecognised
- unrecognition
- unrecognizable
- unrecognizableness
- unrecognizably
- unrecognized
- unrecognizing
- unrecognizingly
- unrecollected
- unrecommendable
- unrecommended
- unrecompensable
- unrecompensed
- unrecomptless
- unreconcilability
- unreconcilable
- unreconcilableness
- unreconcilably