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unˈfaithfulness
[un-1 12.]
†1. Lack of faith; infidelity. Obs.
1388Wyclif 2 Tim. ii. 16 But eschewe thou vnhooli and veyn spechis, for whi tho profiten myche to vnfeithfulnesse. 1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 61 Unfeithful men that shulen be dampnid uttirli..if thei dien in unfeithfulnesse. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 129 Therof foloweth somtyme infidelite or vnfaythfulnes. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 56 Whoso therfore wil beware of this vnfaithfulnesse, let him kepe alwayes in remembrance [etc.].
2. The quality of being unfaithful; lack of good faith or fidelity.
c1480Henryson Test. Cres. 570 Traisting in vther als greit vnfaithfulnes, Als vnconstant, and als vntrew of fay. 1532in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. II. 251 As towchinge the onfaythfulnes..of Father Forest, I dyd wryte of unto my Lady Marcas of Penbroke. 1590Swinburne Testaments 218 So the legataries and children of the deceased are often defrauded..by the vnfaithfulnesse of the executor. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. xxv. 26–27 Unprofitableness and omission of duty, is damnable unfaithfulness in us that are but Stewards and Servants. 1737in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 493 It contains a clear Proof of the Unfaithfullness of a Person in whom Your Majesty has placed a Trust. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 14 Henry was in the height of his resentment, at the unfaithfulness of his allies. 1842J. B. Fraser Allee Neemroo II. 31 If you impute to me any unfaithfulness towards you, I swear that you are deceived. 1881R. W. Church Cathedral & Univ. Serm. v. (1892) 59 The taint..of insincerities, of treacheries, of unfaithfulnesses to light.
b. spec. (Cf. unfaithful a. 2 d.)
1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxvi, Is it unfaithfulness to my husband? I scorn it and defy anybody to prove it. 1851Froude Short Stud. (1867) II. 191 Nor, again, was unfaithfulness..conclusively fatal against a wife. |