单词 | unsoldierlike |
释义 | unsoldierlikeadj. (un- prefix1 1c.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [adjective] > befitting soldier > not unsoldierlike1590 unsoldierly1598 unsoldiery1598 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). < adj.1590 |
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