a. (UN-1 7.)
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. Prol. 180. [They] helden hem vnhardy and here conseille feble.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 4208. I wil arise, and auntre it by my fayth: Vnhardy is vnseely, thus men sayth.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, IV. viii. (1554), 105. Nother heauenly gods nor fortune blind of syght Wer both vnhardy tattempt agein his might.
1539. Taverner, Erasm. Prov. (1545), 79. With sluggers or unhardy persons, it is alwayes holy daye.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xi. § 5. 555/1. Neither yet was he vnhardie in Arms.
1671. Milton, P. R., III. 243. The wisest, unexperienc’t, will be ever … Irresolute, unhardy, unadventrous.
