[UN-1 7. Cf. WFris. on-, ûnfrjeonlik, MDu. onvriendelijc (Du. -lijk), MHG. unvriuntlîch (G. unfreundlich).]
1. Not characteristic of a friend or friends; exhibiting dislike or hostility.
1425. Rolls of Parlt., IV. 274/1. Þis delaye, of which were like to growe unease and unfrendely love betwene me and my said Cousyn.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron. (1516), VII. 134/1. They mette with vnfrendely countenaunce, & … departyd with lytle loue or charyte.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 229. The French kyng … knewe by his espials … the vnfrendly departyng of the Duke of Burgoyn.
1663. Bp. Patrick, Parab. Pilgr., xxxvii. Nor have you given me cause to be less your Friend than heretofore; unless it be by this unfriendly jealousie.
1757. Foote, Author, II. It was, d’ye see, a very unfriendly thing to make love to Becky in my absence.
1837. De Quincey, Lake Poets, Coleridge. Discoverers who would make a more unfriendly use of the discovery.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 21 Jan., 2/2. We are very much afraid that this would be looked upon by other countries as an ‘unfriendly act.’
2. Not having the qualities or disposition of a friend; esp. unfavorably disposed, inimical, hostile.
1483. Cath. Angl., 142/2. Vn Frendly, inhumanus, inimicus.
1553. Ascham, Germany, Wks. (1904), 127. I am not so vnaduised … nor you so vnfrendly to looke for so much from me.
1579. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 58. To his very unfrendly frende that procurid ye edition of his slender and extemporall devises.
a. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Wit at Sev. Weapons, V. i. Sure some unfriendly Messenger Is imploy’d betwixt you.
1629. in Foster, Eng. Factories India (1909), III. 358. Our unfriendlie neighbours the Dutch.
1794. S. Williams, Vermont, 170. The Indians became unfriendly.
1836. Thirlwall, Greece, III. 379. They put forward some of their partizans, who were not so notoriously unfriendly to him.
1884. Church, Bacon, 18. His unsympathetic and suspicious, but probably not unfriendly relative.
3. Not propitious or favorable (for or to).
1513. Bradshaw, Lyfe St. Werburge, II. 1047. By fortune vnfrendly … both horse and man fell to grounde sodendly.
1608. Shaks., Per., III. i. 58. No light, no fire; the unfriendly elements Forgot thee utterly.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 41. The Wind that blows from thence … is always unfriendly to Vegetation.
1784. Phil. Trans., LXXIV. 468. It must be supposed to have arisen from some unfriendly mixture in the tin, probably from Arsenic.
1805. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 406. It frequently happens that a coarse, unfriendly, stiff soil, is brought up.
1815. Jane Austen, Emma, xvi. The atmosphere in that unsettled state … which is … the most unfriendly for exercise.
1845. Whately, in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), I. 225/1. Qualities unfriendly to each other are rarely combined.
