unheroicaladj.
= unheroic adj. and n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > ignobleness or baseness > [adjective]
theowlikec1175
low?c1225
undignec1315
unfreec1330
base?1518
roynish1570
baseborn1573
base-minded1573
haskardly1576
ignoble1592
unnoble1593
slavish1597
disnoble1609
infimous1613
unhandsome1645
unheroical1656
mean1665
unworthy1694
unheroic1732
raff1761
undignified1782
raffish1795
truculent1825
unpromotable1836
menial1837
low-flung1841
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 107 (note) in Poems I call it Nobe..; for (methinks) Nob is too unheroical a Name.
1718 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Wks. (1735) I. Pref. p. xlix Nor can I forbear thinking..that the Figure which Vulcan makes..is a little improper, and unheroical.
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