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unˈpunished, ppl. a. (un-1 8.)
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxiii. 16 He þat does ill, wen he not to be vnpunyst. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 185 Whos see after his deth none myȝte oppresse slepyng un⁓punsched. c1440Alph. Tales 276 So he had levur lefe þe blame vnpunysshid. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop vi. xv. N viij b, Men ought not to leue hym vnpunysshed. 1512Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 75 A good dede is never unrewarded nor an evyll unpunisshed. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 136 They suffered theft to be un⁓punished. 1613J. Taylor (Water P.) Waterm. Suit Wks. (1630) 174/1 Few or none escapes vnpunished if their faults be knowne. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxx. 183 Crimes..which unpunished, seem Authorised. 1712Blackmore Creation vii. 71 His sword unpunish'd criminals defy. 1766Gibbon Decl. & F. vi. (1782) I. 163 The crime went not unpunished. 1827Pollok Course T. ii. 553 An individual sovereignty, that none Created might, unpunished, bind or touch. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 319 The impious..ought not to go unpunished. Hence unˈpunishedly adv.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. Pref. A iiij b, They doe so..licentiously as vnpunishedly fome agaynst vs. 1611Florio, Impunitamente, vnpunishedly. |