c. 1440. York Myst., xxxii. 186. Þou on-hanged harlott, hark what I saie.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. ccxviii. [ccxiv.] 674. It is pytie these vnthriftes be vnhanged or drowned, for tellyng of suche lies.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iv. 144. There liues not three good men vnhang’d in England.
1786. Burns, Twa Dogs, 228. They … Pore owre the devil’s pictur’d beuks; An’ cheat like ony unhanged blackguard.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., v. Some evil fortune dogs the heels of that unhanged rogue Lambourne.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, li. We may abuse a man as much as we like, and call him the greatest rascal unhanged—but do we wish to hang him therefore?
1899. T. M. Ellis, Cat’s-eye Rings, 78. Through this unhanged fiend … my mother was one day … murdered.
transf. 1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 54/1. The advent of the Whigs to power … has been a decided godsend to the trading advocates of unhanged abuses.
