1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. F4^v This vnmanlike, vnprincelike, secrete,..needy french kind of woeng [= wooing].

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xli. 368/2 With shamelesse and vnprincelike lust, he abused a Lady of great estate.

1689 S. Blackerby Hist. Acct. Penal Laws vii. 29 They..ask'd them how they could excuse these designs so Unchristian, so unpriestly, so Treacherous, and so unprince-like?

1709 German Spie 43 Such an ignoble and Unprincelike Way of entring into Hostility, as looks more like robbing upon the High-way.

1747 E. Montague Let. 13 Nov. (1813) III. 65 When she was at war she made something more than fireworks of it, but still she had the mean object of peace in her head..and her attention to the useful and necessary was unprince-like.

1825 V. L. Gutiérrez Don Esteban III. ix. 164 The beauty of the King's consort..would soften the unprince-like feelings of the monarch.

1861 Ladies' Compan. 19 189/1 ‘Prince Albert’ in descending from his roost jumped on one of my chicks, and destroyed it also, which I consider a most un-prince-like way of decreasing my family.

1913 M. Saunders Pussy Black-face viii. 126 I never saw my father, the Piebald Prince, in such an unprincelike rage.

2005 N. Burnham Spin Control i. 5 A prince who..is formal and polite..but who also knows how to kick back and be cool and totally un-prince-like when we're alone.

1591 R. Wilmot Tancred & Gismund iii. iii. Thou didst once vnprincelike make agree With that vile traitor Countie Palurin.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xv. 23 Alexius..most unprincelike brake his word.

2011 T. Svoboda Bohemian Girl x. 72 The prince accepts it, gives out what little he must, his knife in his fist wielding most un-prince-like in division.