Obs. [OE. unmiht, -meht (UN-1 12), = WFris. on-, ûnmacht, MDu. (Du.) onmacht, MLG. unmacht (LG. unmagt), OHG. (MHG.) unmaht (G. unmacht), Goth. unmaht-s; cf. also ON. úmáttr, MDa. umagt.] Want of might or strength; weakness, feebleness.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xxxii. 208. Ðonne hie onʓietað hiera unbældo & hiera unmihte, hie weorðað oft ormode.
c. 1200. Vices & Virtues, 129. For þan euel to done nis non strencþe, ac is unmihte.
a. 1290. Becket, 1408, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 146. For mine sunnes and for mine onmiȝte, þat I ne may hire wardi nouȝt.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 15564. An heuinesse, a gret vnmight, On Cadwalyn gan to lepe.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxii. (Justin), 205. Þe vnmycht of my compere, Þat to spede had na powere.
c. 1400. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), V. xiv. 108. In hym is feblesse and grete vnmyght.
1429. Rolls of Parlt., IV. 343. Grete myght on that o syde, and unmyght on that other.
