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▪ I. unˈfriend, n. (and a.)
Forms: (see un-1 and friend n.).
[ME. unfreond, -frend, = WFris. on-, ûnfrjeon, MDu. onvrient (Du. -vriend), MLG. unvrund, MHG. unvriunt (G. unfreund).]
1. One who is not a friend or on friendly terms; an enemy. In early use chiefly Sc. (sometimes in predicate without article), and in the 19th cent. app. revived by Scott.
c1275Lay. 5632 We sollen..slean houre onfrendes and wenden after Brenne. Ibid. 17612 Wend to oure onfreondes and drif heom of londe. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvi. 3890 For he doutit þe gret mycht Off his vnfreyndis, and þare slycht. a1475Ashby Dicta Philos. 885 Showe to al maner freindis grete honnour..And pardon freendes & vnfreendes errour. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 213 Socrates..uniustely condemned by the furie of the people, and persuasion of his vnfreindes. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 125 Some night Crowes, or other vnfriends or backe friends that may be set on to incense against him. 1663Lauderdale Papers (Camden) I. 127 His unfriends here had taken pains to procure..copies of the books. 1814Scott Wav. xv, He is a very unquiet neighbour to his un-friends. 1835Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) III. 158 With this reservation, there must be no unfriends. 1877Stubbs Med. & Mod. Hist. (1886) 110, I am ready to stick to my friends and vote against my un-friends.
b. Const. of, to.
1513Douglas æneid ix. vi. 111 The day lycht, quhilk is to ws onfrend, Approchis neyr. c1600W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 241/30 Thow, o atropos, vnfreind to hir, and to to freind to me. 1626in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 253 That one near the Crown of England should..become an unfriend to our State. 1692Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence (1738) 47 This Way will render us more formidable to our Enemies, and Unfriends to our Way. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose vi, They are but unfriends to each other. 1888Spectator 22 Dec. 1804 Mr. Courtney, certainly no unfriend of the Parnellites.
2. One who is not a member of the Society of Friends. Also attrib.
1828Southey Ep. to A. Cunningham 387 From such a barber, O unfriend Darton! was that portrait made. 1846W. E. Forster in T.W. Reid Life (1888) I. 186 To make their movement a national one by adding the names of unfriend ladies to their committee.
▪ II. unˈfriend, v.
(un-2 6 b.)
1659Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. iii. xxxj b, I hope, Sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us. |