Unpower sb.

Obs. exc. dial. [UN-¹ 12. Cf. NON-POWER.] Want of power; inability; weakness; helplessness.

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c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 371. Þis drede haþ no peyne, but unpower for to synne.

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1402. Jack Upland, in Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 36. Then puttest thou on Christ … unkunning, unpower, and evill will.

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c. 1440. Gesta Rom., lii. 233. Þerfor do not aftir the worlde, ne abide not age, vnpower, or blyndnesse.

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a. 1470. H. Parker, Dives & Pauper (W. de W., 1496), II. xiv. G iiij b. Yf it be soo that þ^t othe be made … the man that he made it to can not … vnbynde hym from that othe … but nede or unpower excuse hym.

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1847–. in southwestern dial. glossaries.

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