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Athelʹstane (3 syl.)

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surnamed “The Unready” (i.e. impolitic, unwise), thane of Coningsburgh. (Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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