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unˈrighteous, a.
Forms: (see righteous a.).
[OE. unrihtwís (un-1 7 + righteous). Cf. ON. úréttvís (MDa. uretvis, Sw. orättvis).]
1. Not righteous or upright; unjust, wicked:
a. Of persons.
c888ælfred Boeth. xxxvii. §1 Geher nu an spell be..þam unrihtwisum cyningum. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xvi. 10 Se þe ys on lytlum unrihtwis, se ys eac on maran un⁓rihtwis. c1175Lamb. Hom. 115 Þe nihȝeðe unþeau is þet þe king beo unrihtwis. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 19 Alle þe unrihtwise men..hersumieð þe deuel. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 19 Alle unriȝtwise men þat serven to him [sc. the devil] as hise trewe knyȝtis. 14..Tundale's Vis. 274 Þou art not lele iustise, Þou art fals and unryghtwyse. 1474Caxton Chesse 28 Cambyses..had an vnrightwis juge. 1526Tindale Heb. vi. 10 God is not vnrighteous that he shulde forget youre worke. 1572R. T. Discourse 48 The Sadduces..were most vnrightuous. 1651Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 306 There being nothing in mens Manners that makes them righteous, or unrighteous. 1712M. Henry Expos., Isaiah lv. 7 Here's a Call..to the Wicked, and the Unrighteous Man. 1791Bentham Draught Code Wks. 1843 IV. 316 An unrighteous judge, or rather a judge who would otherwise be unrighteous. 1871Jowett Plato I. 158 Many men are utterly unrighteous, unholy, intemperate.
absol.c825Vesp. Psalter v. 6 Ne ðorhwuniað ða un⁓rehtwisan biforan eᵹum ðinum. c1200Vices & Virtues 83 Ic wile tache ðo unrihtwisen ðine weiȝes. a1400New Test. (Paues) App., 1 Pet. iii. 18 For onys Crist was for oure synnes deed, þe riȝtwyse for the vnriȝtwise. 1623R. Carpenter Conscionable Christian 14 What then shall the vnrighteous be able to say..for themselues? 1712M. Henry Expos., Isaiah lv. 7 The Unrighteous that live in the neglect of plain Duties. 1835Wilson's Tales Borders I. 58/1 The innocent have been left to perish amang the unrighteous.
b. Of actions, etc.
971Blickl. Hom. 33 Se awyrᵹda gast is heafod ealra un⁓rihtwisra dæda. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2014 His wif wurð wilde, and nam in ðoȝt vn-riȝt-wis luue. a1300Cursor M. 29507 O thrijn wijs Mai cursing be tald onrightwijs. c1400Destr. Troy 3539 The rape vnrightwis of his Riche qwene. 1481Caxton Reynard xlii. (Percy Soc.) 160 Somme helpe them forth in theyr vnryghtwys dedes. 1535Coverdale 2 Macc. iv. 35 The vnrightuous death of so godly a man. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 60 Octauius here lept into his roome, And it vsurped by vnrighteous doome. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 292 Thir own both righteous and unrighteous deeds. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 630 Angry Neptune heard th' unrighteous prayer. 1846A. Marsh Father Darcy II. xxi. 365 Those who have dared to prostitute holy things to unrighteous purposes. 1863‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage i. I. 17 He was..full of most unrighteous oaths.
†c. Incorrect, false. Obs.—1
1507Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 437 That the mettis and mesouris be assait,..and quhar thai be fundin unrichtuus be distroit.
2. Not rightly due or deserved.
1855Singleton Virgil II. 100 Anchises' offspring..from his soul Compassionated their unrighteous lot.
Hence unˈrighteous v., to make unrighteous.
1593Nashe Christ's T. K ij b, Thou that ere this hast disparradiz'd our first Parent Adam, and vnrightuouzd the very Angels. |