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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1512, 1578
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Undemit, -yt, p.p. Also: ondemit. [ME and e.m.E. unndemedd (Orm), vndemyd (c1460); Deme v.1] Unjudged, uncensured. — a1500 Quare of Jelusy 268.
Ladies … now … mone thame vttirly dispone to duell as doth the anker in the stone Yf that thai think vndemyt for to leve c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 211/5.
I hard ane voce, that said on hicht May na man now undemit be c1500-c1512 Ib. 213/50.
Do weill and sett not by demyng For no man sall undemit be 1578 Aberd. Journal N. & Q. II. 234.
Gyve you wold leive ondemit, gang where no man dwellis
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