Obs. [OE. unrǽd (f. un- UN-1 4 a, b + rǽd REDE sb.1), OFris. unrêd, WFris. on-, ûnrie(d), MDu. onraet (Du. -raad), OHG. (MHG.) unrât (G. unrath), ON. úráð (MSw. oradh, Sw. oråd, MDa. urad, Da. and Norw. uraad).] Lack of counsel or wisdom; evil counsel; folly.

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c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., IV. xii. 210. Scipia … self sæde … þæt hit wære se mæsta unræd & se mæsta ʓedwola.

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c. 1100.  O. E. Chron. (MS. D), an. 1048. Ac hit þuhte unræd eallum folce.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 8011. Wale, wale, vnræd [c. 1275 onread], mani cniht þu makest dæd.

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c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 1906. xii. ȝer or ysaac was dead Iacobes sunes deden un-red.

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c. 1275.  Sinners Beware, 303, in O. E. Misc., 82. He gredeþ þanne heye, Þe wrecches and þe vnsleye, Þat luuede þe vnredes.

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  b.  As the epithet given to King Ethelred II.: see UNREADY a.2

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c. 1210.  Leges Edw., in Lambarde, Archaionomia, fol. 138 b. Ældredus unrade,… Edmundus yrenside.

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c. 1275[?].  Livere de Reis de Engletere (Rolls), 96. Cesti Eilred aucone genz apelent Eilred Unred; e assez proprement.

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