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unˈware, a., n., and adv. Now only arch.
[OE. unwær (un-1 7, 12, 11 b), = ON. úvarr (MSw. ovar). Cf. unwares.]
1. a. Unwary, incautious; not on one's guard.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xv. 89 Oft eac ða un⁓waran lareowas for eᵹe ne durron cleopian. 971Blickl. Hom. 61 Þa scinlæcan þa þe galdor-cræftas..begangaþ, & mid þæm unwære men beswicaþ. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 538 Ᵹif ðu unwær bist, þu bist ðe swiðor ᵹeswenct. c1200Vices & Virtues 45 Ðe unware mann ðe ðis ȝeherð, ðingþ ðat he seið him god rad. c1205Lay. 7810 Nu þohte Julius Cezar (ah þer he wes to vnwar), he þohte swa forð teon æfter þere Temese. a1225Ancr. R. 274 Hwonne þeo sunnen þet weren ȝare ibet kumeð eft..& sleað þeo unwarre soule. c1307Langtoft Chron. (Rolls) II. 252 For Scottes Tell i for sottes, And wrecches unwar; Unsele Dintes to dele Tham drohu to Dumbar. 1388Wyclif Prov. xxiii. 28 Sche schal sle hem, whiche sche schal se vnwar. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xliv. 115 If he miȝt bringe hedily þe unware man into þe gnare of deceite. Ibid. I. 121 Fro suche fables & unwar men, lorde, defende me, þat I falle not into her hondes. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 37 Suche ar vnware and gyuen to neglygence,..Makynge no prouysyon for the tyme to come. 1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 230 Now vaunt thee loue which..wounded hast a wight vnwise, vnweaponed and vnware. 1624H. Mason Art of Lying ii. 35 Unware men are ouer⁓reached and caught.
b. Of actions: Done incautiously.
a1395Hylton Scala Perf. ii. xviii. (Bodl. MS.) fol. 110 An vnware stiringe of himsilf schulde caste him doun aȝen worse þan he was bifore. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxiv. (Bodl. MS.), Þe þrote is ofte igreued..by vnwise and vnwar taking of mete and of drinke.
2. a. Unaware, ignorant. Const. of, that.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 304 Lo he..was ful vnwar þat loue hadde his dwellynge with-inne þe subtile stremes of here eyen. c1400Destr. Troy 1183 Vnwar of þe weghes þat by the walles lay,..He busket to þe banke with a bolde chere. 1421–2Hoccleve Complaint 375 He that it owght agayne it to hym toke, Me of his haste vnware. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cvii. 128 We shall entre whyle they be at supper, and vnware of vs. 1563Mirr. Mag. A a iij, O hedeles trust, vnware of harme to cum. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iv. 17 So me weake wretch,..vnware of such mishap, She brought to mischiefe.
ellipt.c1611Chapman Iliad xvi. 109 Ajax seeing..that he shook a headless spear, a little while unware. 1866Hardy Wessex Poems (1898) 10, I lived unware, uncaring all that lay locked in that Universe taciturn and drear.
b. quasi-adv. Without knowing it; in ignorance, innocently.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 885 Of this brekynge comth eek ofte tyme that folk vnwar wedden or synnen with hire owene kynrede. 1390Gower Conf. II. 2 Thus bringeth he many a meschief inne Unwar, til that he be meschieved. c1450Merlin xxvi. 493 He put vp his goode swerde for doute leste he slough eny man vn-war. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 598/1 After that he..therby made him giue sentence vnware against himselfe. 1533― Apol. 191 b, He playn reproueth his owne processe, & excuseth the clergye hym selfe vnware. c1614Sir W. Mure Dido & æneas i. 963 Her self, vnwar, thus doth her self betray, And feels the force of this small archer's bowe. 1671Milton P.R. i. 225 The erring Soul Not wilfully mis-doing, but unware Misled.
3. Unexpected, unforeseen.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. met. i. (1868) 151 It haþ hys propre causes of whiche causes þe cours vnforseyn and vnwar semiþ to han maked happe. c1386― Man of Law's T. 427 Vp on thy glade day haue in thy mynde The vnwar wo or harm þat comth bihynde. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 6181 They turne nat as doth a phane With vnwar wynde. 1430–40― Bochas viii. 2192 Hih clymbyng vp haþ ofte an vnwar fall. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxv. (Percy Soc.) 180 At a tyme unware my dette shal be dewe. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 218 b, Least..the common people hereafter..might..excite an unware rebellion.
4. Unknown (to one).
1390Gower Conf. III. 44 Who dar do thing which love ne dar? To love is every lawe unwar. 1529More Dyaloge ii. Wks. 190/2 If there came amonge them vnware to you some spies. a1536Wyatt Wks. (1913) I. 130 If I had suffred this to you unware, myn were the fawte, & you nothing to blame.
5. As n.
a. In phr. on unware, in unware, or at unware, unawares, unexpectedly.
c1070O.E. Chron. (MS. C) an. 1066, Þa com Harold cyning..into Tinan on unwaran. c1100Ibid. (MS. D) an. 1043, Man ᵹerædde þan cynge þæt he rad..to Wincestre on un⁓wær. 14..R. Gloucester's Chron. 1966 (MS. Digby 205), This prince al in vnware toward hem þan drouȝ. 1561Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc ii. ii, Shall I geue leasure by my fonde delayes To Ferrex to oppresse me at vnware?
b. Unwariness, carelessness.
1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 27 By unware of theire purveiaunce [they] met withe the said Haniballe at certen streightes and narow places.
6. adv.
a. Without warning; unexpectedly.
c1100O.E. Chron. (MS. D) an. 1050, Hi comon unwær on heom on ealne ærne merᵹen. Ibid. an. 1067. c 1386 Chaucer Frankl. T. 1356 On thee Fortune I pleyne That vnwar wrapped hast me in thy cheyne. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 219 He was bysette..in a harde battaille þat fil uppon hym unwar [L. inopino] in þe Ester day. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 13548 They sawh on komen ffaste by, Vnwar, with a gret company. 1454Paston Lett. I. 282 William..and Robert come uppon hem onwarre, and theruppon chasid hem. c1510More Picus Wks. 26 Death stealeth on full slily and unware. 1591Spenser Virg. Gnat Ded. 5 If that any Oedipus vnware Shall chaunce..To reade the secrete of this riddle rare. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv. 498 Seeking the place of Charitie's resort, Unware I hapned on a Princes Court. 1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. viii. 180 In each quarter, they prepare, to charge the campes sodainlie and vnware. 1875Morris æneid vi. 104 No face of any care, O maiden, can arise on me in any wise unware.
b. Unwarily, incautiously.
1545Taverner Erasm. Prov. 55 Whiche stones so sone as a man vnware take vp, forthwith he receiueth a wound of the scorpion. |
