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unˈduteous, a. (and adv.)
[un-1 7.]
1. Undutiful; also adv., undutifully.
1598Shakes. Merry W. v. v. 240 This deceit looses the name of craft, Of disobedience, or vnduteous title. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 260 Perpetually unsociable, unpeacefull, or unduteous. 1694Dryden Love Triumph. i. i, I..must condemn This carriage, as unduteous to your father. 1745Matrimony pro & con 7 What! teach a Child unduteous to behave? 1848Lytton Harold xi. viii, Why this dispute?—why this unduteous discord?
2. spec. = inofficious a. 1 b. rare—1.
1861Maine Anc. Law vii. 215 A new remedy..called..‘The Plaint of an Unduteous Will,’ directed to the reinstatement of the issue in inheritances, from which they had been unjustifiably excluded. |