a. (and sb.). Obs. [OE. unhold (f. UN-1 7 + HOLD a.), = MDu. onhout, Flem. (Kilian) onhoud, OS., OHG., G. unhold, MLG., MHG. unholt; MSw. ohulder (ohwl, ohull), MDa. uhuld.]
1. Unfaithful; disloyal; false.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 556. Se unholda ðeowa wearð ða aworpen on þam yttrum þeostrum.
c. 1395. Plowman’s Tale, 473. Hir servaunts be to hem unhold, But they can doublin hir rentall To bigge hem castels.
2. Of persons: Exhibiting dislike or hostility; unfriendly, hostile.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., II. xii. (1890), 132. Swa … he him þa sætunge þa ʓewearonode þæs unholdan cyninges [L. regis sibi infesti].
c. 1050. O. E. Chron., an. 1040 (Tiberius B. i). Him was þa unhold eall þæt his ær ʓyrnde.
c. 1320. Sir Tristr., 936. Marke schuld ȝeld vnhold … Þre hundred pounde of gold.
b. Of events: Troublesome, disastrous.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., iv. 24. He mai … sore ben fered on folde, Lest he to harmes helde, ant happes hente un-holde.
3. absol. or as sb. An enemy or foe.
a. 1200. Moral Ode, 36 (Lamb. MS.). Monies monnes sare iswinc habbeð oft unholde.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 222. Vnholde uor-ureten þe strencðe of his soule, & he hit nout nuste.
