unnigh

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ nigh.

Adjective

unnigh (comparative more unnigh, superlative most unnigh)

  1. (archaic) Not near.
    • 1905, Alexander H. Japp, Robert Louis Stevenson, second edition:
      Longman’s Magazine, immediately after his death, published the following poem, which took a very pathetic touch from the circumstances of its appearance—the more that, while it imaginatively and finely commemorated these days of truant wanderings, it showed the ruling passion for home and the old haunts, strongly and vividly, even not unnigh to death: […]
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