Obs. [OE. unweorþscipe (UN-1 12).]

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  1.  Absence of honor, respect, or reverence; dishonor; disgrace.

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  In frequent use from c. 1400 to c. 1450.

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c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxvii. § 2. Hwæþer þu nu mæʓe onʓitan hu micelne unweorðscipe se anwald brengð þam unmedeman ʓif he hine underfehð?

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c. 1200.  Vices & Virtues, 53. For ðare unwurscipe ðe me nimð hit al swa unwurðliche swa me nimð ðat bread (of ðæ borde).

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13[?].  Guy Warw. (A.) 1857. Unworþschip it wer to me, Ȝif y schuld iusti wiþ þe.

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a. 1395.  Hylton, Scala Perf., II. ii. (Bodl. MS.). Þe trespas and þe vnworschip was endeles greet.

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c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. xvii. (1869), 81. Wurshipe,… what seyst thou? the unwurshipe is thine.

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c. 1440.  Jacob’s Well, 165. Ȝif þou sodaynly … brekyst out woordys of vnworschype to god.

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a. 1470.  H. Parker, Dives & Pauper (W. de W., 1496), IV. i. 160/2. Thus for scornyng & vnworshyp that the sone dyde to the fader began fyrste boundage.

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  2.  An act or instance of disgrace or dishonor; a slight. rare.

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c. 1200.  Vices & Virtues, 97. After maniȝe unwurðscipes ðe he for me hier þolede.

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1387–8.  T. Usk, Test. Love, I. v. (Skeat), l. 24. Why, than,… suffre ye such wrong…? Me semeth, to you it is a greet unworship.

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