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单词 unneath
释义

unneathprep.

Forms: 1600s vnneth (Scottish), 1600s–1800s unneath.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: underneath prep.
Etymology: Shortened < underneath prep., with elision of an unstressed medial syllable.
Chiefly poetic. Obsolete (English regional (Somerset) in later use).
Underneath, beneath.
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a1612 W. Fowler Wks. (1914) I. 292 The spring of al my woes..whairin I am so soused ouer heade and eares, And maks me faint vnneth this weght and burden of my feares.
1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. vii. lxx. f. 184v A noble Pair..ly here unneath one stone.
a1718 T. Parnell Poems Several Occasions (1721) 38 Full against the Beam he flung, Where by the Back the Youth he hung To spraul unneath the Roof.
c1750 W. Shenstone Ruin'd Abbey 174 That their dishonour'd corse..Must sleep with brutes their vassals, on the field Unneath some path.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Unneath, beneath. Somerset.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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