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unˈwarlike, a.
(un-1 7 c.)
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xi. 44 With womanish teares, and with vnwarlike smarts, Priuily moystening his horrid cheek. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. i. vii. 21 Ioshua and his poore people (though vnwarlike and vnacquainted with such actions). c1654Waller Panegyric to Ld. Protector 78 He safely might old troops to battle lead, Against th' unwarlike Persian. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 239 Cæsar, whose victorious Arms Avert unwarlike Indians from his Rome. 1739Glover London 473 Thy sons..vainly deem'd that wealth Could..protect Unwarlike freedom. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 525 The inhabitants of the cultivated country were not unwarlike. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xviii. 73 The only three unwarlike kings who had reigned since the Conquest.
Hence unˈwarlikeness.
1864Pusey Lect. Daniel v. 269 [Babylon's] deliberated unwarlikeness stands in strange contrast to its subsequent energy in rebelling. |