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unˈformal, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
= informal 1.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. ii. 9 Thei schulden not be..so ruyde and vnformal and boistose in resonyng. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 81 Your fift, sixt, and seuenth notes be wilde and vnformall, for that vnformall skipping is condemned in this kinde of singing. 1661Campion Counterpoint 109 This passage from the flat to the sharp would be unformal. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. ii. xxiii. §4 (1699) 249 Often times they return unformal verdicts. 1799H. Mitchell Scotticisms 87 The contract was unformal.
b. = informal a. 1 b.
1825Cath. Stanley Jrnl. in Mem. (1879) 211 The unpunctual [people] are easy, good-tempered, unfussy,..unformal. 1858M. Pattison Ess. (1889) II. 328 The rude independence of character, which was generated by that free and unformal life.
Hence unˈformally adv.
1597Morley Mus. 86 Your seuenth and eighth notes, wherein you fal..so vnformallie to B fa ♭ mi backe againe. |