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Unneth vs Uneath - What's the difference?

unneth | uneath | Alternative forms |

Uneath is a alternative form of unneth.



As adverbs the difference between unneth and uneath

is that unneth is obsolete spelling of uneath Hard, difficult, not easy while uneath is not easily; hardly, scarcely.

As an adjective uneath is

not easy; hard.

unneth

English

Adverb

(head)
  • Hard, difficult, not easy
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1922 , year_published=2008 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=James Joyce , title=Ulysses , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=The nursingwoman answered him and said that that woman was in throes now full three days and that it would be a hard birth unneth to bear but that now in a little it would be. }}

    uneath

    English

    Alternative forms

    * unneth * unnethe, unnethes * unethe, unethes

    Adjective

    (head)
  • not easy; hard
  • * Spenser
    • Who he was, uneath was to descry.

    Adverb

    (head)
  • (label) Not easily; hardly, scarcely.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:Who he was, uneath was to descry.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Uneath may she endure the flinty streets.
  • (label) Reluctantly, unwillingly.
  • *, Bk.VII:
  • *:Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.

    • Antonyms

    * eath * easy