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unˈvirtuous, a.
(un-1 7.)
1432Paston Lett. I. 32 The whiche lak or defaulte mighte be caused by ungodely or unvertuous men. c1456Pecock Bk. of Faith (1909) 149 Forto so bileeve withoute evydence is unresonable, and therfore unvertuose. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, 19 He beyng netteled with these vncurteous ye vnuertuous prickes..serched out the authours. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 16 The coate-armours, and nobilities of the vaine and vnvertuous Gentlemen. 1645Milton Tetrach. 54 An opinion both ungodly, unpolitic, unvertuous, and void of all honesty and civil sense. 1741Richardson Pamela III. 44 It must be a very unvirtuous Man, that can form any other Ideas..than those of..Pity for you. 1867Month VI. 17 An unvirtuous Priest..ruins many souls in these days. 1886A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe ii. 37 He was [deeply] involved in the unvirtuous statecraft of his time.
Hence unˈvirtuously adv.; unˈvirtuousness.
a1500Bernardus de cura rei fam. (E.E.T.S.) 10/245 Wyrk thow oder wnwerteusly or vele. 1520Caxton's Chron. Eng. iv. 32 b/2 Many tymes he regned vnuertuously that is a kynge borne. 1682N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. iv. (ed. 4) 115 Love less, and you will love better and longer. You love Arete unvertuously. 1843Carlyle Past. & Pr. iii. ii, It was the terror..of doing unworthily, doing unvirtuously, which was their word for unmanfully. 1865W. H. Gillespie Argt. Being & Attrib. iii. iii. §6 The same sort of thing holds with regard to..unvirtuousness. |