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Middle English
Etymology
un- + digne
Adjective
undigne
- unworthy
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
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"