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单词 unfriend
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unfriendn.adj.

Forms: (see un- prefix1 and friend n.).
Etymology: Middle English unfreond, -frend, = West Frisian on-, ûnfrjeon, Middle Dutch onvrient (Dutch -vriend), Middle Low German unvrund, Middle High German unvriunt (German unfreund).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈfriend.
1.
a. One who is not a friend or on friendly terms; an enemy. In early use chiefly Scottish (sometimes in predicate without article), and in the 19th cent. apparently revived by Scott.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun]
witherwinc897
foemaneOE
i-foeOE
withersakec960
fiendc975
foeOE
witherlingc1000
unwine1050
unholda1200
andsetec1200
unfriendc1275
un-i-winec1275
adversaryc1350
enemy1362
hatera1382
evil-willinga1400
fedea1400
contraryc1405
inimi1423
overthwarter?c1450
evil-willer1460
Moabitea1461
heavy friend?1518
Satanas1530
adverse1593
malengine1601
distresser1616
viand1616
hostile1838
unfriendly1973
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 5632 We sollen..slean houre onfrendes and wenden after Brenne.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 17612 Wend to oure onfreondes and drif heom of londe.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvi. 3890 For he doutit þe gret mycht Off his vnfreyndis, and þare slycht.
a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum l. 885 in Poems (1899) 83 Showe to al maner freindis grete honnour..And pardon freendes & vnfreendes errour.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 215 Socrates..vniustely condemned by the furie of the people, and persuasion of his vnfreindes.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 125 Some night Crowes, or other vnfriends or backe friends that may be set on to incense against him.
1663 W. Sharp in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1884) I. 127 His unfriends here had taken pains to procure..copies of the books.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xv. 222 He is a very unquiet neighbour to his un-friends . View more context for this quotation
1835 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) III. 158 With this reservation, there must be no unfriends.
1877 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. (1886) 110 I am ready to stick to my friends and vote against my un-friends.
b. Const. of, to.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. vi. 111 The day lycht, quhilk is to ws onfrend, Approchis neyr.
c1600 W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 241/30 Thow, o atropos, vnfreind to hir, and to to freind to me.
1626 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 253 That one near the Crown of England should..become an unfriend to our State.
1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence ii. 44 This way will render us more formidable to our Enemies, and Unfriends to our Way.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 268 They are but unfriends to each other.
1888 Spectator 22 Dec. 1804 Mr. Courtney, certainly no unfriend of the Parnellites.
2. One who is not a member of the Society of Friends. Also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Quakerism > [noun] > person > not
unfriend1828
1828 R. Southey Poet. Epist. to A. Cunningham 387 From such a barber, O unfriend Darton! was that portrait made.
1846 W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. 186 To make their movement a national one by adding the names of unfriend ladies to their committee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

unfriendv.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈfriend.
(un- prefix2 1d(b).)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance with [verb (transitive)]
alienc1350
strange1460
estrangea1513
alienate1531
avert1532
stranger1608
to set off1633
disaffect1641
disoblige1647
unfriend1659
rupture1815
split1835
1659 T. Fuller Let. P. Heylyn in Appeal Injured Innoc. iii I Hope, Sir, that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us.

Draft additions March 2013

transitive. To remove (a person) from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking website. Cf. friend v. 6, defriend v.
ΚΠ
2003 Woo-hoo in alt.support.depression.flame (Usenet newsgroup) 16 Feb. I have been ‘unfriended’ by somebody in the LJ world today... Being turfed from somebody's LJ ‘friends’ list is small peanuts in comparison to losing elections.
2007 D. Fono & K. Raynes-Goldie in Internet Res. Ann. 4 102 I didn't unfriend her.
2008 USA Today (Electronic ed.) 18 Jan. a1 If you are not comfortable with the exposure that being a Facebook friend of mine brings to your profile, ‘unfriend’ me—I won't feel slighted.
2012 M. Miller Facebook for Grown-ups (ed. 2) vii. 98 The person you unfriend doesn't even know he's been ditched; you just get rid of them and that's that.
2012 Sunday Times (Nexis) 16 Dec. 5 I wrote ‘your’ instead of ‘you're’ on a post and she corrected that so I unfriended her.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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