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unˈnaturalness
[f. unnatural a.]
1. Unnatural conduct or disposition.
1537Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 86 Promysing hym..forgeuenes..of his most shamefull ingratitude, vnnaturalnes, conspiracie against his honour. 1550W. Lynne tr. Carion's Cron. 36 Thys cruell dede declareth the vnnaturalnesse of the Barbarous nation. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. ix. 25 Their parents also through their unnaturalness are compell'd to curse them. 1689D. Granville Lett. (Surtees No. 37) 97, I am not..guilty in the lest⁓wise of..injustice and unnaturallness to my fellow-subjects. 1703Quick Dec. Wife's Sister 26 A Prodigy of Baseness, Unnaturalness and Ungratefulness. 1758Jortin Erasmus I. 547 Burnet hath retracted his mistake that this Lord..sat in judgment upon his daughter, which would have impeached him of great unnaturalness.
2. Unnatural character.
1605B. Jonson Volpone iii. v, That the unnaturalness..of the act..would sure enrage him. 1633T. James Voy. 77 This vnnaturalnesse of the season did torment our men. 1664N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. vi. 349 The Unnaturalness of such Disobedience will appear yet farther. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xliii, The unnaturalness of her crime. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 12 The unnaturalness and strangeness of the facts. 1884Spectator 4 Oct. 1302/1 The unnaturalness of the situations in which he acts a part.
3. Want of natural grace or ease.
1803Dorothy Wordsworth Recoll. Tour (1875) 49 The unnaturalness of a modern garden. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 205 What we call unnaturalness always has its spring in a man's thinking too much about himself. 1876A. Sidgwick Gr. Prose §107 He will..be saved from falling into many unnaturalnesses of expression. |