In earliest quots. rendering L. inglorius.
1382. Wyclif, Job xii. 19. He bringeth the prestis of hem vnglorious, and the beste men of wrshipe he supplauntith. Ibid., Isaiah, lii. 14. So vnglorious shal ben among men his siȝte.
c. 1400. The Brut, ccxxvii. 298. Þe same vnglorious Philip wiþdrowe him, wiþ þe residue of al his peple.
c. 1450. Myrr. our Ladye, 183. Tho aungels,… made vngloryous for thyr wyckednes, felle from glory.
1663. Cowley, Ess. in Verse & Pr., Virg. Georg., 46. In the next place, let Woods and Rivers be My quiet, though unglorious destiny.
1744. Armstrong, Preserv. Health, III. 13. Needlessly to brave Unglorious dangers.
1882. Froude, Carlyle, II. 153. Something should be found … neither unglorious nor unprofitable.
