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unˈtruly, adv.
[OE. untréowlice (un-1 11), = MDu. ontrouwelike (obs. Du. ontrouwelijk), MHG. untriuwelîche, ON. útrúliga (MSw. otrolika, older Da. utrolig).]
†1. Unfaithfully, dishonestly; guilefully, treacherously. Obs.
c893K. ælfred Oros. iv. v. §5 Agothocles ᵹedyde untreowlice wið hiene. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1834 She..here wedlak Ful falsly an on-truly brak. 1340Ayenb. 44 Huanne me heþ riȝtuolle wyȝtes and riȝtuolle mesures and zelleþ ontreweliche. c1400Destr. Troy 12074 Achilles..with treson in þe temple vntruly was slayn. 1444Rolls of Parlt. V. 105/2 The Slayes and Yern therto belangyng, untruly were..wrought. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 24 §1 Jurrours untruly gevyng ther verdite. 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 1 §1 Great multitude of Hydes..is vntruely insufficiently and deceyvably tanned. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 78 b, Ye..ought to haue kept your faith and promise, whiche you haue vntruly and vnhonestly broken.
2. Incorrectly, falsely.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 430 For þanne..goddis lawe shulde be vntreweliere knowun boþe bi clerkis & bi comyns. c1394P. Pl. Crede 312 Þere we lengeden full longe..For-to all þis freren folke weren founded in townes, And tauȝten vntrulie. 1425Paston Lett. I. 19 Johne Wortes, that..affermith hym untrewely to be my cousyn. c1449Pecock Repr. Prol. 4 Whiche summe of the comoun peple vnwijsly and vntreuli iugen and condempnen to be yuele. a1533Frith Another Bk. agst. Rastell C viij b, Now are we come to the fourth erroure where Rastel vntrulye reporteth on me [etc.]. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 438 He would get credite to that whiche is vntruely ascribed to Saint Iames. 1625Donne Serm. (1640) 26 It is..dangerously said,..that it is not absurd to say..that God does sometimes speake untruly. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. cvi. §8 It was said foolishly..of Shakspeare, and we may be sure untruly, that he never blotted a line. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel 122 They allege, even untruly, that he copied the prayer of Nehemiah.
3. Inexactly; not in a true course.
1844Mardon Billiards 107, I cannot recollect a single instance of the balls having run untruly. |