Un-sýfre

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

un-sýfre

adj. Impure, unclean, foul (physically or morally), (1) physical :-- Gif hió swíþor unsýfre weorpe (weorþe?), clǽnsa mid hunige, Lchdm. ii. 210, 2. Wíc unsýfre (a prison), Andr. Kmbl. 2622; An. 1312. Unsýfra olidarum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 15. (2) moral :-- Forhwan ðú ðæt selegescot, ðæt ic mé on ðé gehálgode, þurh firenlustas fúle synne unsýfre (or ad Cf. O. H. Ger. un-súbro sordide) besmite, Exon. Th. 90, 34; Cri. 1484. Synfulra weorud, swá fúle swá gǽt, unsýfre folc, Exon. Th. 75, 35; Cri. 1232. Ǽr se unsýfra (Holofernes) womfull onwóce, Judth. Thw. 22, 24; Jud. 76. Be ðam sacerde ðe hine sylfne besmít þurh unsýfre sprǽce (impuro sermone), L. Ecg. C. 5, tit.; Th. ii. 128, 14. Þurh unsýfre sprǽce per turpiloquium, 5; Th. ii. 138, 4. [O. H. Ger. un-súbar, -súbiri fedus, immundus, sordidus.] un-syfre

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