a. [OE. undeore (see UN-1 7 and DEAR a.1), MDu. ondiere, -dure, -duyr (older Du. ondier), OHG. undiuri, -tiuri (MHG. untiure), ON. údýrr (Icel. ódýr).]

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  † 1.  Of little value or estimation; worthless, cheap. Obs.

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c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., lvii. 439. He nemde ða undiorestan wyrta ðe on wyrttunum weaxe.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 130. Uile ualet, undeor hit is.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 408. Vndeore he makeð God, &to unwurð mid alle, þet for eni worldliche luue his luue trukie.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 16034. Parfai, pilate, wel þou aght to hald him ful vn-dere.

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  2.  Not dear; not regarded with affection.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. 168. So hasty, dearest Madam—And so slow, undearest Sir, I could have said.

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1790.  Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, V. IV. 182. Adieu, my dear friends! Adieu—undear December!

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1881.  Mrs. A. R. Ellis, Sylvestra, II. 76. One art Sylvestia gained, not undear to her,… the getting-up of ‘small linen.’

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