[UN-1 12. Cf. WANEASE sb.] 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, trans. 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.
