A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Undew, -due, adj. [ME and e.m.E. undewe (Trevisa); Dew adj.] a. Of time: Inappropriate (for some activity); unseasonable. b. Not deserved by or due to (a person). c. Unwarranted; excessive. —a. 1530 Aberd. B. Rec. I xxxvi.
Pleis your lordschipe … to caus the blak fische be keipit in vndew tyme, and to puneis the slaaris tharof be justice —b. 1609 Haddington Corr. 219.
Privileges … whilk I haue ever thoght undew to any subiect —c. a1684 Leighton Comm. Peter II 350.
[Love] delights not in the undue disclosing of brethren's failings
