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unˈamiable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
Not amiable, in senses of that adj.: a. Of things (chiefly abstract) or acts.
c1480Henryson Fables, Trial of Fox xx, My mycht is..Angrie, austerne, and als vnamiable To all that standis fray to myne estait. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Inamabilis,..vnamiable: without grace or pleasantnesse woorthie fauour. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1140 If love be away,..the act thereof remaineth altogether not expetible, dishonourable, without grace and unamiable. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 563 Nor are the Hills unamiable, whose Tops To Heav'n aspire. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 83 Extremes, nearly as pernicious, though not so unamiable as the vices. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 500 Three poor labouring men, deeply imbued with this unamiable divinity, were arrested. 1884St. James's Gaz. 9 Sept. 6/1 The Greenore steamer..surmounted the unamiable waves of the Channel.
b. Of persons.
1711Addison Spect. No. 261 ⁋4 True Love has ten thousand Griefs..that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits. 1778F. Burney Evelina xl, The distaste I already felt for these unamiable sisters. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. 4 What in the world makes a man of just pride appear so unamiable as the sense of dependence? 1884Spectator 4 Oct. 1325/1 There is no more unamiable character in the whole of history than Frederick William I.
c. Of conduct, disposition, etc.
1774Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1862) II. 65 His conduct had been unamiable and careless. 1779Mirror No. 33, A tolerable person, and I think not an unamiable temper. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlv, This unamiable..disposition of mind broke forth in sundry unfounded criticisms. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 450 His countenance and his voice must always have been unamiable. 1890Baker Wild Beasts I. 306 The difficulty was increased by the cheetah making unamiable faces as the man approached.
Hence unˈamiableness, unˈamiably adv.
1611Florio, Inamabilità, *vnamiablenesse, vnlouingnesse. 1668Wilkins Real Char. iii. vii. §6. 341 Passive, to be done, Unamiableness. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) III. vi. 162 The unamiableness of the characters he blamed imprinted those dislikes. 1840L. Hunt Leg. Florence i. i, He does her the honour of making her..Grateful return for his unamiableness, Love without bounds, in short, for his self-love. 1874Ruskin Val D'Arno cxxxi. (1886) 63 Pacific Florence, in her pride of victory, was beginning to show unamiableness of temper.
1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ix. II. 423 Their national antipathies were, indeed, in that age, unreasonably and *unamiably strong. |