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单词 unsoldierlike
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unsoldierlikeadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈsoldierlike.
(un- prefix1 1c.)
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [adjective] > befitting soldier > not
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1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 3 Their infinite vnsoldiorlike proceedings and disorders.
c1600 J. Dymmok Treat. Ireland (1842) 41 That advantage which was geven them by this unsoldior lyke encampinge.
1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox iii. 50 The unsoldier-like countenance of Iphigenes.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 309 This was the most Unsoldier-like Action.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. 80 From their unsoldier-like impatience..their general permitted them to retire.
1810 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 193/1 Those allowances have been abused in the meanest..and most unsoldier-like manner.
1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 300 An abnormal and most unsoldierlike condition of things, which involved all the elements of weakness, incompetency, and defeat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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