Obs. [OE. unwrenc (UN-1 4 b, 12).] An evil or base trick, artifice, or turn; a vice or sin.

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c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory Past. C., xxxiii. 215. Ða ʓeðyld … for ðæm unwrence ðære unʓeðylde … he forlet.

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a. 1023.  Wulfstan, Hom., 54. Mid ðam unwrencan bið Antecrist eal afylled.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 79. Ȝif þe unfele man … mid felefolde wiȝeles teð him to unwrenches.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 268. Vor þet is his unwrench … þet holi men mest dredeð.

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a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 169. Ne speddestu noȝt mid þine unwrenche, For ich am war.

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