(also 6 -farme), obs. var. UNFIRM a.
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, III. lxiv. 149. In þe þerfore I sette all my tribulacion,… for I finde all vnferme & vnstable, what euere I beholde oute of þe.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 84/1. Theuangelyste was not so unferme but that he myght gete for hys syght that saynt andrewe gate for hym so lyghtly.
a. 1542. Wyatt, in Anglia, XIX. 427. I … fele my bonis consume and wax vnfarme By dayly rage.
