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unˈroyal, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Unbefitting or inappropriate to a king or queen.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. ix, He..sent them with unroyall reproches to Musidorus. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 71 A Roman king, who counted it the most unroyal thing to be religious. 1780W. Beckford Italy (1834) I. 62, I scolded in an unroyal style. 1842F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life (1882) II. 239 The unroyal indignity of being waited upon after her guests. 1880F. G. Lee Ch. under Q. Eliz. II. 155 With unroyal discourtesy and unwomanly harshness.
b. Not associated with royal authority.
1867Bagehot Eng. Constitution 99 The unroyal species of cabinet government.
2. Not of royal rank or birth.
a1618J. Davies Witte's Pilgr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 35/2 Then, Rimes how ere vnroiall run you on, You may, in time, perhaps come neer that Crowne. 1814Moore Mem. (1852) II. 21 A certain un-royal person in Derbyshire. 1861Trollope Framley P. III. 230 That none of the blood royal shall raise to royal honours those of the subjects who are by birth un-royal.
Hence unˈroyally adv. Also unˈroyalist.
1777Potter æschylus, Choephorœ 345 My royal father, who unroyally Wast murder'd! 1788F. Burney Diary 11 Feb., He is so privileged a favourite with all the Royal Family, that he utters all his flights to them almost as easily as to unroyalists. 1829Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 38 Not quite liking to refuse him, as being always so unroyally good-humoured and good-natured. |