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unˈruliness
[f. next.]
The quality of being unruly. (Of persons, animals, etc.)
1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 12 §1 The Insolency and Unruliness of Men. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 150 You must keepe the Boare from them; for with his vnrulinesse, he maketh them to cast. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades 301/1 Therein doth patience make proofe of it self,..that it neuer breaketh forthe to immoderate vnrulynesse. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death 210 For the Quieting of the vnruliness of the spirits. 1684J. S. Profit & Pleas. United 14 For the better preservation of your Cattle, both from sickness and hurt, which may happen through their unruliness. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 440 Excellent caveats..touching..unruliness of the tongue. 1704Dict. Rust. s.v. Mare, His own unruliness being so great, the Cure [of the colt] may be very difficult. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 356 We ascribe the..unruliness of inordinate desires..to the fatal effects of original sin. 1805Wordsw. Prelude vi. 392 Some vapoured in the unruliness of joy. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 110 The governments affected to regret the unruliness of their subjects. |