[UN-1 12: cf. UNHEAL.] Want of health; weak or poor health.

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c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Luke v. 31. Ne beþurfon læces þa ðe hale synd, ac þa ðe unhælþe habbaþ.

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a. 1050.  Liber Scintill., xxviii. (1889), 107. Maneʓa … menn þurh win lichaman unhælþe mæste togæderetugan.

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a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 323. Ac þer nis hunger ne þurst ne deð, ne vnhelþe ne elde.

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a. 1250.  Prov. Ælfred, 113, in O. E. Misc., 103. Þenne cumeþ elde, and vnhelþe.

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1551.  Parry, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 454. Her Grace’s unhealth hath made it [her hand] weaker, and so unsteady.

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1826.  Coleridge, in D. Campbell, Life (1894), 267, note. I am at present sadly below even my par of health, or rather unhealth.

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1853.  Kingsley, Misc., I. 316. The spokesman … of all the unrest and unhealth of sensitive young men for many a year after.

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