Obs. [OE. unþéaw: see UN-1 4 b and THEW sb.1] A bad habit or custom; a vice.

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c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., 23. Feorðe [ðara dæla] is hu he his aʓene unðeawas onʓietan wille.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 107. Twelf unþeawes beoð on þissere weorlde to hermen alle monnen.

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a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 346. Þat buð ða þe heom sculdeð ȝeorne wid elche un-ðeawe.

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a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 194. He is of worde swyþe gleu, And him is loþ eurich vnþeu.

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1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 4850. A chylde Þat wyþ vnþewys wexyþ wylde, Þat wyl boþe myssey and do.

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13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., B. 190. Man may mysse þe myrþe, þat much is to prayse, For such vnþewez as þise & þole much payne.

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a. 1400.  Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS., 54. Þe conscience, þat chases owte alle vnthewes, and calles in alle gud vertus.

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