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unˈtrue, a. and adv.
[OE. untréowe, unᵹetréow(e, etc. (un-1 7, 11 b), = NFris. untraw, WFris. on-, ûntrou, MDu. on(ge)trouwe (Du. ongetrouw, usu. ontrouw), MLG. un(ge)truwe, OHG. un(gi)triuwi, -gitrûwi, -getreowe (MHG. un(ge)triuwe, G. un(ge)treu), ON. útryggr (MSw. otrygger, (M)Da. utryg), Goth. untriggws.]
A. adj.
1. Of persons, etc.: Unfaithful, faithless.
c1040Laws Cnut in Liebermann I. 330 Ᵹyf hwylc man sy swa untrywe ðam hundrede. c1290St. Edmund 100 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 434 Ich wot wel, ȝuyt men miȝhten finde..Summan..untreowore to is wiue. c1300K. Horn 645 Þe kyng rod on hontynge,..ant Fykenyld bi is syde, Þat fals wes ant vntrewe. a1340Hampole Psalter xxx. 9 To..haf ill susspeccioun of a trew frend, or goed of an vntrew. 1390Gower Conf. I. 21 The world as of his propre kynde Was evere untrewe. 14..Hoccleve Of Pride (MS. Laud Misc. 735) fol. 69, Fy vp on tonges vntrew, They displeasaunce in lordis courtes brew. 1446Lydg. Two Nightingale Poems ii. 17 To take vengeaunce On false lovers whiche that bien vntriewe. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xii. 285 Y⊇ gretest traytour & the vntruest kyng of the worlde. a1547Surrey in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 219 For my vaunt I dare well say my blood is not vntrue. a1548[see untroth 1]. 1611Shakes. Cymb. i. v. 86 When to my good Lord I proue vntrue, Ile choake my selfe. 1700Dryden Flower & Leaf 564 The Men inglorious Knights, the Ladies all untrue. 1738Wesley Ps. v. iii, The Hearts unkind and Hearts untrue Are both abhor'd by Thee. 1802Leyden Mermaid vi, Know that thy favourite fair is dead, Or Proves to thee and love untrue. 1818Wordsw. ‘Not seldom’ 6 The smoothest seas will sometimes prove, To the confiding Bark, untrue. 1879Froude Cæsar xx. 341 He had refused to believe that Labienus could be untrue to him.
absol.a1400Pauline Ep. (Powell) Titus i. 15 To þe fuylyd..and to þe vntrewe no thyng is clene. 1866Morris Ayenb. 270 margin, The untrue, the evil, thieves, &c., are dark.
2. Contrary to fact; false; erroneous.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 897 Neuer lesyng ne tale vn-trwe, Ne towched her tonge for no dysstresse. c1370Hymns Virg. (1867) 108 And ȝif þei talke of tales vn-trewe, þou torn hem out of þat entent. c1400Cursor M. 28012 (Cott. Galba), Ȝe traist ouer mekill in thing vntrew. 1446Lydg. Two Nightingale Poems ii. 80 Feynt and vntriew thyne exposicioun. 1531Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W.) 187 b, Sooner shall heuen and erth be dissolued, than one..lettre of y⊇ lawe of god sholde be vnfulfylled or founde vntrue. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. 43 Others thinke it an assured remedie..; but Columella thinkes it vntrue. 1612Sir J. Digbye Let. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 609 But for myne owne parte, I holde this like the reste, to bee alltogeather untrue. 1644Milton Areop. 38 When God shakes a Kingdome..'tis not untrue that many..false teachers are then busiest in seducing. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 400, I do not apprehend that it any ways tends to prove my assertion untrue. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) III. 360 The motives by which a man may be urged to give credit to untrue facts. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 156 There is nothing true which is not from some point of view untrue.
absol.1807Wordsw. White Doe 836 Less would not..be due To us, who war against the Untrue. 1882N. & Q. 6th Ser. VI. 429/2 Belief in the untrue. 1891Science-Gossip XXVII. 1/1 It has all the fascination of the untrue for the popular taste.
3. Dishonest; unfair, unjust; wrong.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. i. 98 And boxes ben broght forþ..To vnder-take þe tol of vntrewe sacrifice. 1399― Rich. Redeles i. 11 By drede, or be dyntis or domes vntrewe. 1444Rolls of Parlt. V. 105/2 Be cause it was of untrue makyng, and untru stuff, no man sette therby. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 24 §1 Every untrue verdite herafter geven. 1542–3Act 34–35 Hen. VIII, c. 20 Untrue and fained recoveries to be had against them. Ibid., To thentent by fraude, covyne, and untrue meanes..to bynde and defeate theyre heyres. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 199 To..craue the succour..of God and man against the Romane vntrue tyrannie. 1622in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 44 Wee shall fynde it deficulte to..cleare their demaunds, which what they are or howe untrewe wee are not justly posest. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 5 Nothing..so dispels untrue prejudice as personal intercourse.
4. Not straight or direct; inexact; not agreeing with a standard.
c1220Bestiary 77 in O.E. Misc. 3 Ðer he wurdeþ heil & sund,..Ne were his bec untrewe. Ibid. 111 His muð is ȝet untrewe. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VI, c. 6 §1 Deceivable and untrewe Beames and Scales. a1513Fabyan Chron. ccxxvi. (1516) 147 b/1 This Henry chastysed the olde vntrewe mesure, and made a yerde of the length of his owne Arme. 1780Cowper Progr. Error 571 None sends his arrow to the mark in view, Whose hand is feeble, or his aim untrue. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 891 Thereby producing wool of unequal size, and therefore untrue. 1867A. Barry Sir C. Barry ii. 57 The perspective gives an untrue figure.
b. Improper, imperfect.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. C i, There is ii. maners of consolydacyon, one is trewe,..and y⊇ other is vntrue consolydacyon. 1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. i. 23 One of the oldest thoughts in Philosophy is that of the opposition between true being and untrue being.
B. adv. = untruly adv.
a1310in Wright Lyric P. xlii. 114 Whose loveth untrewe, his herte is selde seete. c1386Chaucer Prol. 735 Or ellis he moot telle his tale vntrewe Or feyne thyng or fynde wordes newe. c1600Shakes. Sonn. lxxii, Least your true loue may seeme falce in this, That you for loue speake well of me vntrue. 1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Merry-Fery-Wherry Voy. Wks. (1630) 13/1 Some fooles would say I flatter'd, spake vntrue. |