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unˈcomeliness
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1. The quality of being uncomely; want of comeliness († or seemliness); an uncomely feature.
1542Becon Potation for Lent G iij, To make clene y⊇ face of our hart, from all fylthinesse of synnes & from the vncomelynes of trespasse. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. (Arb.) 297 In euery vncomlinesse there must be a certaine absurditie and disproportion to nature. 1624Heywood Gunaik. ii. 64 They raysed a kind of uncomelinesse and deformitie in the faces of such as playd upon them. 1670Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 60 Her own Subjects, who detested..the uncomeliness of thir Subjection to the Monarchie of a Woeman. 1711Steele Spect. No. 52 ⁋3 The native and unaffected Uncomeliness of her Person. 1795Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. Wks. 1842 II. 509 He has joined to these powers of living existence uncomeliness, want of strength, want of distinction. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. iv. (1875) 164 That brick-and-mortar image of English Protestantism, representing it in all its prose, all its uncomeliness.
†2. Unruliness. Obs.—1
1607Markham Cavel. v. 22 If you finde his [a horse's] vncomelinesse onelye proceedes from ticklishnesse. |