▪ I. unˈease, n.
[un-1 12. Cf. wanease n.]
Want or lack of ease; discomfort; uneasiness.
App. not in use in the 18th cent., and not common in the 19th till about 1880.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 29091 Discipline..in askes and in hare, And weping and vneses lair. c 1400 Rom. Rose 3102 Thanne seide I, ser, not you displease To knowen of myn gret vnnese. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1906) 152 That none other creatoure aught not to be ameruailed to suffre displesaunce and vnese, whanne so high a lady suffered..so gret sorw and tribulacion. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. Froiss. I. cxlvi. 174 We haue endured moche payne and vnease. 1593 Nashe Christ's Tears 13 More and more thou addest to my vnease. 1632 Lithgow Trav. vii. 327 In this unease Of tackling Boards, we so the way make short. 1676 Hobbes Iliad Pref. (1686) 3 Such unease, as in a Coach a man unexpectedly finds in passing over a furrow. 1828 Carr Craven Gloss., Unease, uneasiness. 1857 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. II. 458 The unease thereby occasioned was exceedingly enhanced..when general belief superadded [etc.]. 1894 J. Knight D. Garrick vii. 109 A tendency to self-consciousness with a consequent unease was a fault of his style. |
▪ II. † unˈease, v. Obs.
[un-2 4.]
trans. To incommode, trouble, distress.
| c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 14481 Vnnethes of vs is any That we nare wounded or vnhesed. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 562 Cannetes old ek tyme is now to wede, And of to kytte hit that their roote vneseth. 1464 Rolls of Parlt. V. 568/1 The comon people..is gretely uneased therby. c 1590 J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 195 Not, Sir, til vneis ȝow, Bot mening to meis ȝow. |