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- noun Alternative form of
undern .
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Examples
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On Whitsunday, at the time called "underne," which was nine in the morning, King Arthur and his knights sat at the Round Table, where on every seat there was written, in letters of gold, the name of a knight with "here ought to sit he," or "he ought to sit here;" and thus went the inscriptions until they came to one seat (or _siège_ in French) called the "Siege Perilous," where they found newly written letters of gold, saying that this seat could not be occupied until four hundred and fifty years after the death of Christ; and that was this very day.
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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And so upon the morrow he took his horse and rode until underne, and then he came to a broad water, and thereby was a great lodge, and there he alighted to sleep and laid his head upon the shield, and betook his horse to the dwarf, and commanded him to watch all night.
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And on the morn at underne Sir Arthur was ready in the field with three great hosts.
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And on the morn by underne they made them ready to do battle.
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Then he departed from them and took his two cousins with him, and so they came unto Camelot by the hour of underne on
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Then had Sir Gawaine such a grace and gift that an holy man had given to him, that every day in the year, from underne till high noon, his might increased those three hours as much as thrice his strength, and that caused Sir Gawaine to win great honour.
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Truly, said the damosel, he came into this country like a mad man, with dogs and boys chasing him through the city of Corbin, and by the holy vessel of the Sangreal he was brought into his wit again; but he will not do battle with no knight, but by underne or by noon.
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King Arthur should begin at underne; and all was done for Sir
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But every once in a while, I could see my father going outside when -- when -- when it's dark and sit underne -- on -- on the grass and look up at the sky and meditate and pray.
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000
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Then he departed from them and took his two cousins with him, and so they came unto Camelot by the hour of underne on Whitsunday.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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