a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lxxiv. 768 Solinus..seith þat Irlonde is nyȝe as moche as Bretayne and is byspronge wiþ vnmanliche [L. inhumana] manere lyuynge of men of þe londe... Þe men ben werryours and drynken mens bloode þat þey slee.

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 34 Inumanus, vn manly [a1500 Harl. 1738 on manly, a1500 Harl. 2270 vnmanly, vnkynde].

c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 203 The venym of horrible and cruell sedicion and the deedes of vnmanly [Fr. inhumaine] tyrannye.

1573 tr. F. Hotman True Rep. Outrages Fraunce p. cxli Many other barbarous, vnnaturall and vnmanly actes.

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. C4^v Now..thou..basely descendest into bruitish & vnmanly passions.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) i. i. 187 Be thou a prey vnto the House of Yorke..for this vnmanly deed. View more context for this quotation

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 258 Why this unmanly Rage?

1705 S. Clarke Being & Attrib. God 12 All mocking and scoffing at Religion..is the most unmanly and unreasonable thing in the World.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. vii. 87 [To] be guilty of..unmanly cruelty.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya i. i. 42 Your servants..Offered gross insults, in unmanly sort, To our village maidens.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 310 Hatred, which showed itself by unmanly outrages to defenceless captives.

1906 S. R. Keightley Barnaby's Bridal xi. 189 She has no other remedy than such as a judge and a jury may give her for your cruel and unmanly treatment.

1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone (1986) ii. 96 He had shown them how unmanly were swearing and dirty talk.

1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 5^v Do you thynke me suche a dastarde, or, so vnmanly?

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Biv That Paris nowe with hys vnmanly sorte, Wyth mytred hattes..Hys rape enioyeth.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Infractus A softe and vnmanly fourme of speakyng.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 94 Tis vnmanly griefe, It showes a will most incorrect to heauen. View more context for this quotation

1682 J. Flavell Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) Ded. sig. A4^v An unmanly and unchristian faintness.

1750 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Wks. (rev. ed.) II. 255 Thy vile unmanly Wailings.

1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. viii. 122 An unmanly fop.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xii. 9 Others sate and wept, And to the reckless gales unmanly moaning kept.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 339 Unmanly and pernicious luxury.

1891 J. M. Pendleton Reminisc. Long Life i. 7 If it is unmanly for the heart to palpitate with emotion, then I am unmanly.

1929 Daily Express 12 Jan. 8/7 I refuse to believe that Britons are so excessively unmanly as to be driven to this state of grandmothering.

1964 Life 13 Mar. 44/2 British soldiers received helmets with the French, but at least one general considered them unmanly and for a time forbade their use.

2005 J. McCracken Healthy Carb Cookbk. for Dummies vi. 96 Somehow it got a bad rap years ago, and quiche was declared a rather unmanly dish.

?1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 26 (MED) The same kyng..lete take and areste the fforseyd Duk off Gloucestre..And with oute eny answere, or lawe, or processes, pryvely lete him be stranglyd, and vnmanly be murdrid.

c1453 Brut (Harl. 53) 561 (MED) Þe Duyk of Burgeyn..went to þe Dolfyn to Motreux, vnder sav-condit of comyng and goyng and þere, by the said Dolfyn was traytosely and vnmanly slayne As he knelit before hym.

?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 50 He was traitorly and vnmanli slayn, and cast in to a pit.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 197^v [A] kyng..By the myrmydons vnmonly murtherit to dethe.

1626 R. Peeke Three to One sig. B3 Some of our Men were vnfortunately and vnmanly surprised.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 105 (MED) Þe peple..beere hem anentis þe seid precher as wijlde..beestis in many kyndis, crueli, vnmanli, vncurteisli, and vntrewli.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 77^v Vn Manly, inhumaniter.

1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus 1513 Shall he thus unmanly be misus'd?

a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 464 A Dominion so unmanly cruel.

1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 46 If he had not so unmanly..play'd upon the dead.

1717 S. Centlivre Cruel Gift iv. ii. 51 Unmanly dost thou urge my Father's Faults.

1824 T. Fenby Last Sad Scene viii This was all for him who hath, Untimely and unmanly, left me.

a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 360 (MED) That traytur..turnyd ageyne þere he come fro, Vnmanly for to say, For hys company was all gone.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 144 (margin) How Diogenes tooke vp a young manne y^t apparelled & demeaned hymself vnmannely.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 909 So he tooke his banishment vnmanly.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 61 We ought not to heare the reprehensions..of Philosophers recklessly.., nor yet unmanly.

1724 W. Philips Belisarius iii. 31 Be witness Heav'n! if I unmanly griev'd, If one mean Thought found ent'rance in my Heart.

1824 N.-Y. Mirror 28 Feb. 248/1 Shall I unmanly to my sorrows bend?

a1911 W. S. Gilbert Sensation Novel (1912) i. 11 Then it was unmanly done.

2004 G. W. Williams in C. M. S. Alexander Shakespeare & Lang. xiv. 246 Macbeth rejected that control firmly..as he unmanly and weakly submitted to the control of his wife.