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unˈcivilly, adv. [un-1 11.] In an uncivil manner; not in accordance with civility; roughly, rudely; † barbarously.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades ii. v. (1592) 150 Al vertue..is vtterly ouerthrown,..virgins defiled, matrones vnciuilly dealt withall. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 22, I must first aske if you know anie citizen which liueth unciuillie. 1600Holland Livy 897 He was loth to converse there uncivilly, at so unseasonable a time. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2) i. i. 3 When he brake forth as desperately as before he had done uncivilly. 1676Shadwell Libertine iii, Ha! 'tis uncivilly done to leave a man in a strange country. 1798Southey Lett. (1856) I. 51 Some English soldiers storm the ale-house, and are proceeding to behave somewhat uncivilly to Joan and her sister. 1825Scott Betrothed xvii, Turning sternly on the huntsman, as one who has been hastily and uncivilly roused from a reverie. 1888Freeman Four Oxford Lect. ii. 99 Those Breton followers of Ralph of Wader whom Lanfranc so uncivilly called ‘filth’. |