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单词 unmotherly
释义 I. unˈmotherly, a.
(un-1 7.)
Also, in recent use, unmotherliness.
1593Sidney's Arcadia iv. (1629) 413 Well hath my mother reuenged vpon me my vnmotherly hating of thee.1622E. Clinton C'tess Lincoln's Nursery 13 They argue vnmotherly affection, idlenesse, desire to haue liberty.1825Coleridge Aids Refl. 357 To asperse my friend's wife for unmotherly conduct in taking an infant six months old to a crowded theatre.1850Blackie æschylus I. 120 My mother most unmotherly, her own children With godless hate pursuing.
II. unˈmotherly, adv.
[un-1 11.]
Unkindly.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. ii. viii. 702 Thai at coyme to spy Þat lande, þai dressit wnmodyrly; For sum of þaim þai slew richt þar.1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 30 [They] bitterly and unmoderly will bakbyte behynd bakkis.
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