a. [UN-1 7.]

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  † 1.  Unexampled, unprecedented. Obs.

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1649.  in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. III. 340. To give you some relation of the sad and unexemplary murther of our Soveraign.

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1704.  in Lond. Gaz., No. 4058/1. Your Majesty’s unexemplary Piety.

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1730.  Swift, Vind. Ld. Carteret, Wks. 1761, III. 186. He hath in a most unexemplary manner led a regular domestic life.

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  2.  Not exemplary; not to be taken as a model.

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1699.  Shaftesb., Inquiry conc. Virtue, I. ii. 3. Nothing horrid or unnatural, nothing unexemplary, nothing destructive of … natural affection.

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1894.  Daily News, 5 Feb., 3/3. A staunch upholder of that unexemplary husband [sc. George IV.] in his long contest with his wife.

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