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unˈthriving, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
†1. Not doing well; lacking merit or excellence; unworthy. Obs.
c1325Metr. Hom. 130 Als did unthriuand [v.r. unthrewand] Giezye, That wex unhale thoru his gilrye. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1499 Good is your speche, Bot þrete is vn-þryuande in þede þer I lende. c1400Destr. Troy 4893 And we..Answarth hym..with angur & skorne, With thretyng vnthriuand. c1460Wisdom 784 in Macro Plays 784 Here was a meny on-thryvande.
2. Not growing vigorously or thriving; not prospering or flourishing.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xlvi. 517 After you haue thus cut it you may take the vnthriuing grafts [etc.]. 1628Quarles Argalus & P. iii. Wks. (Grosart) III. 276/2 My quill would wast Th' unthriving stock of my bespoken time. 1673Lady's Call. ii. ii. §49 They will often find temtation enough here to discard their honesty, as the most unthriving trade. 1793Residence in France (1797) I. 121 An unthriving tree of liberty, which seems to wither under the baneful influence of the bonnet rouge. 1848Aird Mother's Blessing ii. ii, Filling up With stakes the gaps of the unthriving hedges. 1875W. Alexander Ain Folk 59 The poor wan bairnie..looked even more shrivelled and unthriving than before.
3. Bringing no gain or profit; unprosperous.
1617Bp. Hall Quo Vadis? §5 Whiles in the meane season, their vnthriuing intermission is assailed with a thousand suggestions. 1624Heywood Gunaik. ix. 442 Hee was compelled..to prostitute his owne bodye to unnaturall lusts, for bruitish and unthriving gaine. a1656in Raleigh's Remains 110 It is now more than a seasonable time to alter the course of so unthriving a husbandry. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 107 The vetches continued in an unthriving way till the first of February. 1723Mrs. Howard in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) I. 111 Sincerity is so very unthriving, that I can never give consent that you should practise it.
Hence unˈthrivingly adv., unˈthrivingness.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 135 A þral þryȝt in þe þrong vnþryuandely cloþed. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 397 Þe childe was i-bore to fore his tyme, and þerfore it was so unþryvyngeliche and so evel i-schape. 1704Dict. Rust. s.v. Enclosures, The unthrivingness of Trees. |