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▪ I. unˈprincely, a. (un-1 7.)
1536Anne Boleyn Lett. (1714) 38 Your unprincely and cruel usage of me. 1593Sidney's Arcadia v. (1922) II. 201 Constant suffering, that your unprincely dealing hath purchased unto you. 1611[see unpriestly a.]. 1613Sherley Trav. Persia 29 As farre from..vanity as from all vnprincely signes, or acts. 1649Milton Eikon. ix. 78 Not forgetting the unprincely usage, and..the abolishing of Parlaments. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 12 Nor would the unprincely wretch marry her till [etc.]. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Wallace lxix, A base unprincely compact. 1881Tennyson Cup i. i, Some unprincely violence to a woman. ▪ II. unˈprincely, adv. (un-1 11.)
a1548Hall Chron. Hen. IV, 7 b, He most tirannously and vnprincely said that [etc.]. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. 486/1 If Princes can bee thus vnprincely degenerous. |