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inurbane, a.|ɪnɜːˈbeɪn| [ad. L. inurbān-us, f. in- (in-3) + urbānus urbane.] Not urbane; unpolished; esp. impolite, discourteous.
1623Cockeram, Inurbane, rusticall. 1818J. Brown Psyche 198 And by her inurbane behaviour, Half broke a heart. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 186 Just would this be, and by no means inurbane; but hardly, perhaps, Christian. 1881Scribner's Mag. XXII. 101 The inurbane exaggeration of his [Carlyle's] violence of diction. Hence inurˈbanely adv., in a manner not urbane; without civility or polish; discourteously. inurˈbaneness, inurbanity (Bailey vol. II, 1727).
1610Bp. Carleton Jurisd. 221 After his [Alexander's] death Vrbanus dealt very inurbanely: for hee drewe Mamphred in, excluding my selfe the true heyre. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) 73 The very same People shall..spend more than when they lived more sordidly and inurbanely. |