a. Obs. [OE. unléof (UN-1 7.), = MDu. (Du.) onlief, OHG. unliup, unleub, MHG. unliep (G. unlieb), ON. úljúfr, Goth, unliubs.] Not dear or valued; disliked, distasteful, unpleasant.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 189. Ðe lichame … and þe gost … fliten and winnen bitwenen hem, þat al þat is on unlef and unqueme, hit is þat oðer iqueme.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 2949. Therfore saintes to seche and to sere halowes,… it ledis vnto laithnes and vnlefe werkes.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, I. i. (1544), 2. Theyr … unware mischief … It was to them ful uncouth and unlefe.
a. 1500[?]. Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.), I. 42. To all men thou shalbe unleffe,… And over all sette at naughte.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, XII. xiii. 48. Sustenand thus … euery stres, baith lesum and onleif.
a. 1596. Sir T. Chaloner, in Harington’s Nugæ Ant. (1804), II. 379. Nat so unleef, that I shold wysh To be thy Trojan wyfe.
