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† unˈcovenable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Inappropriate, unsuitable, unfitting.
In the first quot. rendering L. importuna.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. vi. (1868) 141 Perauenture þe nature of som man is so ouerþrowyng to yuel and so vncouenable [etc.]. 1382Wyclif 1 Tim. iv. 7 Forsothe schonye thou vncouenable fablis and veyn. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 47 Oon aposteme come to a man..þat was hard to breke for vncouenable emplastres putte þer-to first. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xxi. 26 Yeue not þiself to uncouenable gladnes. 1477Earl Rivers Dictes 41 Do not vncouenable werkis, take compaynie with wyse men and studie in their bookis.
2. Unseasonable.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 121 We mai lerne, over þis, to fede not uncovenable axingis. 1382― 1 Kings iii. 20 Risynge with silence of the vnkouenable niȝt, she took my sone fro myn syde.
Hence † unˈcovenably adv. Obs.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxxii. 6 Vncouenabli wile thou not ben enhauncid in thi wisdam. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 473 Sche was þerfore i-blamed of seint Ethelwold, and sche answerede noþer unkovenabeliche noþer ful curteisliche. |