1. Not feigned, pretended, or simulated; sincere, genuine, true, real.
α. c. 1374. Chaucer, Anel. & Arc., 289. Verraylye yee slee me with þe peyne Þat may yee see vnfeynid on myn huwe.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., V. 194. Of vnfeyned curage [L. sponte] or been therto wole come a multitude.
1494. Act 11 Hen. VII., c. 18. Or ellis he have such unfayned siknes, letting or diseas that he may not … come to do his personell attendaunce.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 99 b. Neuer eate ne drynke out of due tyme, except … vnfayned nede compell the.
1577. Grange, Golden Aphrod., L j. Neither passed this tedious tyme … without vnfayned ioyes & vnspeakeable pleasure.
1649. Bp. Reynolds, Hosea, ii. 68. Profession of faith, unfained, and sincere Repentance was made before Baptisme.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 402, ¶ 2. I have an unfeigned Love of Virtue.
1778. Miss Burney, Evelina, lxxxii. I need not tell you what unfeigned joy accompanied our meeting.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiii. (1861), V. 82. Keppel … looked up with unfeigned admiration to a master whom he had been accustomed … to consider as the first of living men.
β. c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xliii. (Cecilia), 528. Of conscience gud & clere, & fath vnfenȝet.
1562. Winȝet, Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 2. Ane Exhortatioun … For vnfenȝeit reformation of doctrine and maneris.
1609. Hume, in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844), 585. So I wische to God that … the Prince’s wrathe mycht be appeazed,… and his unfainzed favour reconcealed.
2. Of persons or the heart: Honest or sincere in feeling or action.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. 839. I loue oon which is most ententyf To seruen wel vnwery or vnfeyned.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 7363. As it were in a pilgrimage Lyke good and hooly folk vnfeyned.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. clxx. 195/2. Whan … his companyons … herde hym speke those wordes, they parceyued well howe he spake them with all his herte vnfayned.
1573. Baret, Alv., V 126. Your unfeined, trusty, and assured friend.
1613. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. iv. 301. Succour a seely maid, that doth implore Aide, on a bended heart, unfain’d and meeke.
1647. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., I. iv. 16. of fained friends, becomming unfained foes to the Britons.
1696. (title) Some Seasonable and Modest Thoughts … Concerning the Scots East India Company, by an unfeigned and hearty Lover of England.
† 3. As adv. Without feigning; honestly. Obs.
1463–7. Paston Lett., Suppl. (1901), 81. I shal and do pray God dayly to sende you such one … that wil drede and faithfully unfeyned love you.
a. 1529. Skelton, Ware the Hauke, 81. But the fawconer vnfayned Was much more febler brayned.
1550–3. Decaye Eng., in Supplic. (1871), 100. And then vnfayned, as we do thynke, we sholde haue corne ynough.
