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unconˈvenient, a. and n. Obs. exc. dial.
[un-1 7, 5 b, and 12.]
A. adj. = inconvenient a. (in various senses).
1450–80tr. Secreta Secret. 8 The name of skarste is vnconvenient to a kyng. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §154 It shoulde seme vnconuenient for a temporall man to take vpon hym to shewe or teache any suche spirytuall matters. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia ii. (1895) 278 It were an vnconuenient thinge, that the blessed shoulde not be at libertye to goo whether they wold. 1590Disc. Span. Invasion in Harl. Misc. (1809) II. 158 It seemed unconvenient that he should in every thing be inferior to the Englishmen. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing p. iii, A Low Case is unconvenient for a Compositer to work at. 1880–in dial. glossaries.
†B. n. = inconvenient n. 3. Obs.
c1536in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. III. 43 It was thoght..the matter..wolde have growen to forther vnconueniaunts.
Hence unconˈveniently adv.
1538Elyot, Indecore, vnhonestly, vnconueniently. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xix. 108 b, That it myght appeare howe vnconueniently the cryme of any cruell auctoritie..was layd agaynst hym. 1561–6Child-Marriages 112 She..had sene the said Custance Wade and Robert Rile..unconvenientlie together in the..chambre. |