单词 | unwarlike |
释义 | unwarlikeadj. (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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1590 |
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