单词 | unleal |
释义 | † unlealadj.n. Obsolete (archaic in later use). Unfaithful, disloyal; dishonest, false; faithless. Also as n.: a false or dishonest person; (with the) false or dishonest people as a class. Cf. leal adj.Chiefly in Scottish use in the later 15th and 16th centuries, then falling out of use before being readopted in the 19th cent. as a literary archaism. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > disloyalty > [adjective] unleal?a1300 faithlessc1390 disloyal1477 unloyal1576 disleal1590 illoyalc1630 disaffectionate1636 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > disloyalty > [adjective] unleal?a1300 faithlessc1390 disloyal1477 unloyal1576 disleal1590 illoyalc1630 disaffectionate1636 indevoteda1674 ?a1300 Loue is Sofft (Digby) l. 8 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 107 (MED) Loue is douti in þe world, wiþ for to dele; Loue makeþ in þe lond moni hounlele. c1390 MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 278 (MED) False prechours þer weore fele þat Made Cristen folk vn lele. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13173 Wit him-self he wex ful wrath,..þat men suld hald him for vn-lele. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiv. l. 69 Boþe louye and lene þe leelle and þe vnleelle. c1450 W. Lichefeld Complaint of God (Lamb. 853) l. 203 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 203 Þou lyuest a letcherouse lijf vnleel. c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 456 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 163 Sa þat na lele man suld forfare amange vnlele þat wekit ware. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 28 Vntrewe and vnlele to thair soueraynis lordis. 1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 313 Sum part thair was of vnleill Lauboraris. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 733 Hir fenyeit wordis fals,..And als the luik vnleill Of hir bricht fair ene twane. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 29 Words so unleal and foul. 1873 E. Fawcett Purple & Fine Linen v. 49 Summer..bequeaths to all her constant patient subjects what the unleal and faithless left behind. 1874 Once a Week 23 May 462/1 Have the late and present secretaries been guilty of some unleal offence? 1900 L. F. Madison Maid at King Alfred's Court vii. 102 Methinks that were I a man naught but death could make me unleal to the king. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.n.?a1300 |
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