a. [UN-1 7.]
1. Not English in character; lacking the qualities regarded as typically English.
1633. Prynne, Histrio-m., 546. So unmanly, degenerous and un-English (if I may so speake) in their whole conversation.
1745. H. Walpole, Lett. to H. S. Conway, 27 May. This is so un-English, or so un-heroic, that I despair of you!
1763. Ann. Reg., Chron., 89/2. One of the members … called the attack ‘a horrid un-English act.’
1803. Mackintosh, Def. Peltier, Wks. 1846, III. 286. Though deserted by the un-English Government of England, they asserted their own ancient character.
1848. in Life A. Fonblanque (1874), 225. The un-English practice of secret voting will be resorted to.
1872. Yeats, Growth Comm., 308. A false patriotism that thought it un-English to wear foreign fabrics.
2. Not English by occupation or possession.
1738. Gentl. Mag., 427/1. Such beauties … are,… save at Finedon, hardly found On English or un-English ground.
1902. Daily Chron., 18 July, 3/4. With Delagoa Bay the only harbour still un-English passes into England’s power.
