undigne
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]undigne
- unworthy
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio 178, verso:
- Wondrẏnge upon this word / quakẏng foꝛ drede
she seẏde lord / undigne / or unwoꝛthẏ
I am- Wondering at this, and quaking in fear, she said "lord, I am unworthy"