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unˈtruthful, a.
[un-1 7. Cf. untrothful.]
†1. Unbelieving, infidel. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvii. (Machor) 846 Dewenik can to catnes pas, to folk þat þan wntreuthtfull was. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 108 The traytouris untreuthfull sais that the grete Cane is lord of all the warld.
2. Not truthful; untrue.
[1847Webster.] 1854Patmore Angel in Ho. i. viii. 5 The candid skies At our untruthful strangeness laugh'd. 1871Jowett Plato II. 20 As men become better such theories appear more and more untruthful to them.
Hence unˈtruthfully adv., unˈtruthfulness.
[1847Webster, *Untruthfully.] 1879Temple Bar Mag. Sept. 45, ‘I am sorry’, says Tremaine, untruthfully.
1830Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1872) III. 53 But it always is our duty..not to avoid unweddedness by *untruthfulness. 1863Mansel Lett., Lect., etc. (1873) 239 The glaring untruthfulness and incongruity of the story. |