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unˈfaring, ppl. a. Obs. exc. Sc.
Also Sc. 6 onfarrand, 9 on-, unfarrant.
[un-1 10.]
Unattractive, unpleasant. Also † unˈfaringly adv. Obs.
1513Douglas æneid ix. ix. 52 Wyth drawin swerd in hand, And quhite targat, onsemly and onfarrand. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 57 b, He went with an vnfaryng chere [L. vultu abducto]. Ibid., He loked vnfaryngly [L. truci fuit aspectu]. c1530tr. Erasmus' Serm. Ch. Jesus (1901) 38 So that it, whiche a lytle to fore semed unfarynge, waxeth amyable: whiche semed amyable, waxeth vnfarynge. 1818Hogg Hunt of Eildon ii, O, man, ye're an unfarrant beast! 1887Suppl. Jamieson 179 An orfarant body. |