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单词 unwarlike
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unwarlikeadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈwɔːlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˌənˈwɔrˌlaɪk/
(un- prefix1 1c.)
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > peace > pacific character or disposition > [adjective] > unwarlike
unwarlike1590
immartial1598
imbellious1602
imbellic1623
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn7v With womanish teares, and with vnwarlike smarts, Priuily moystening his horrid cheeke.
1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. viii. 21 Ioshua and his poore people (though vnwarlike and vnacquainted with such actions..).
c1654 E. Waller Panegyric to Ld. Protector 78 He safely might old troops to battle lead, Against th' unwarlike Persian.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 78 Cæsar, whose victorious Arms Avert unwarlike Indians from his Rome.
1739 R. Glover London 473 Thy sons..vainly deem'd that wealth Could..protect Unwarlike freedom.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. v. ii. 525 The inhabitants of the cultivated country were not unwarlike.
1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xviii. 73 The only three unwarlike kings who had reigned since the Conquest.

Derivatives

unˈwarlikeness n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > peace > pacific character or disposition > [noun]
peaceableness1530
pacificity1800
non-aggression1846
unwarlikeness1864
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel v. 269 [Babylon's] deliberated unwarlikeness stands in strange contrast to its subsequent energy in rebelling.
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