a. Obs. Forms: (see UN-1 and BLITHE a.). [OE. unblíðe (f. un- UN-1 7 + blíðe BLITHE a.), = MDu. onblide (Kilian -blijde), OHG. unblîdi, -plîdi (MHG. unblîde), ON. and Icel. ú-, óblíðr (Sw. oblid, Da. ublid).]
1. Unhappy; sad, sorrowful; not delighted.
Beowulf, 131. Mære þeoden … unbliðe sæt, þolode ðryðswyð, þeʓnsorʓe dreah.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past C., xxvii. 187. Moniʓe beoð ðeah bliðe & eac unbliðe … for ðæs blodes styringe.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxxiii. 348. Þa se abbod þis gehyrde þa wearð he swyðe unbliðe.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 1585. Þe lauerd into þare þeode Fareþ ut…, An[d] is þat gode wif unbliþe For hire lauerdes houdsiþe.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 14867. Þai went þam ham, all þat sith, Bath wrath, waful, and vn-blith.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 746. With mony bryddez vnblyþe vpon bare twyges, Þat pitosly þer piped for pyne of þe colde.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 8029. For Bresaide the bright vnblithe was his chere.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 272. So Columba tuik on him greit cuir And bissines, suppois he wes wnblyth.
2. Of things: Unpleasant, disagreeable.
In OE. also of persons = showing displeasure.
c. 1320. Sir Tristr., 240. As god wil, it schal be, Vnbliþe.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1017. Þer faure citees wern set, nov is a see called,… Blo, blubrande, & blak, vnblyþe to neȝe.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 48. Þan was him bodword vnblyth broȝt to þe sale.
Hence † Unblithely adv. Obs.
1415. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 127. Many of hem her hertblode Unblythly bledden upon that bent.
