a. (UN-1 7.)
1864. Whedon, Freedom of Will, I. i. 13. The Intellect is that by which all things, material or immaterial, external or internal, moral or unethical, are cognized by the soul.
1871. Tylor, Prim. Cult., II. 94. The savage, unethical doctrine of continuance.
1879. Spencer, Data of Ethics, xi. § 68. 187. Ethics has to recognize the truth, recognized in unethical thought, that egoism comes before altruism.
1882. Pall Mall G., 15 July, 4/2. The intermingling of so unethical a people with … societies of European blood.
Hence Unethicalness.
1886. W. S. Lilly, in Fortn. Rev., 59. How can we predicate ethicalness or unethicalness of a thing?
