uneath

• unneth (14th-17th centuries)
• unnethe, unnethes
• uneth, unethe, unneath, unnethes, unethes, uneathes

From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”); equivalent to un- +‎ eath. More at eath, easy.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌˈniːθ/

uneath

1. Not easy; hard.
   • Edmund Spenser

     Who he was, uneath was to descry.

• eath
• easy

uneath

1. (archaic) Not easily; hardly, scarcely.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II scene iv:

     Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.

2. (obsolete) Reluctantly, unwillingly.
   • 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.

• Huante, unhate