Now rare. [UN-1 11.] In an unfriendly manner.
a. 900. Genesis, 2689. Þu us leanast nu, unfreondlice fremena þancast.
1483. Cath. Angl., 142/2. Vn Frendly,… inhumane, inhumaniter.
1548. Elyot, Insequor,… to speake vnfrendly agaynst one.
1553. [see UNFRIENDFULLY].
1570. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 3. I delaied thus unfrendly.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., vi. § 15. To covet to obtain what is another man’s by just means, and with his consent,… has nothing surely that looks unfriendly upon truth, or is blameable, in it.
1757. W. Thompson, R. N. Advoc. 46. [This] I leave to be determined by the … Wisdom of the Contracting Coopers that undermine one another unfriendly.
