单词 | un-i-wald |
释义 | † un-i-waldn. Obsolete. Lack of power, impotence.In Old English in genitive in adverbial phrases with the sense ‘independently of one's control or volition’ with preceding possessive adjective indicating the person lacking in control; cf. un-i-waldes adv. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [noun] un-i-waldeOE impotencea1420 debility1525 unpowerfulness1625 impuissance1645 imprevalencea1656 imprevalencya1656 impuissancy1701 weakness1838 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) vi. v. 137 He [sc. Nero] wræc his ungewealdes ærest on þære byrig hiora misdæda & siþþan on him selfum, þa he hiene ofstong. eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xxi. 481 S[w]a eac ure gast bið swiðe wide færende urum unwillum and ures ungewealdes for his gec[y]nde, nalles for his willan. Þæt b[i]ð þonne þonne we slapað. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 63 Þat we hauen agilt..oðer þurh nuteluste, oðer þurh uniweald,..oðer recheluste. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.eOE |
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