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undeˈlightful, a.
(un-1 7.)
Frequently used with preceding negative.
1585Bullokar æsopz Fablz 155 Go-away henc' with a mischef, with that thy vn-deliht-ful howsband. 1599Daniel Let. Octavia xli, Wretched Mankind, wherfore hath nature made The lawfull vndelightfull? 1616Breton Good & Bad Wks. (Grosart) II. 5/2 Hee is..an vndelightfull friend, and a tormentor of himselfe. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 274 The Dancing of the Women..was not undelightfull. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. iii. §22 In such an Age Delights will be undelightful and Pleasures grow stale unto him. 1742Richardson Pamela IV. 221, I am now..quitting this undelightful Town, as it has been, and is, to me. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. xcviii. (1783) III. 215, I never felt such feverish, yet not undelightful attacks before. c1819Shelley Ess. & Lett. (1887) 305 Tacitus, or Livius,..are.. undelightful and uninstructive in translation. 1876Mrs. Oliphant Curate in Charge viii, The odour of this very undelightful feature in the scene.
Hence undeˈlightfully adv.; -fulness.
1653Cloria & Narcissus i. (1665) 79 They soon retired, with the undelightfulness of the prospect, into their own Lodgings. 1749J. Cleland Mem. Woman Pleasure I. 86 The extreme whiteness of her skin was not undelightfully contrasted by the smooth glossy brown of her lover's. 1783Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 13 Aug., Ovid says that the sun is undelightfully uniform. 1893Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894) 32 In this..his real..kinship to his beloved Dr. Johnson..was not undelightfully manifest. |