[UN-1 12.] Unhealthiness: a. Of persons.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, I. viii. (Arb.), 33. Horace … was thought meete … to be Secretarie of estate,… which neuerthelesse he refused for his vnhealthfulnesse sake.
1611. Cotgr., Indisposition,… vnhealthfulnesse.
a. 1676. Whitelocke, Memorials (1732), 378. Which occasioned sir Thomas Widdrington to … excuse himself … because of his unhealthfulness.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Sickliness, Unhealthfulness.
b. Of places, climate, etc.
1598. Florio, Insalubrita, vnhealthfulnes.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 786, margin. Experiment Solitary, touching the Healthfulnesse or Vnhealthfulnesse of the Southern wind.
1677. in Misc. Cur. (1708), III. 246. The Town lying in a bottom,… the Air may be infected, and contribute to its unhealthfulness.
1757. J. H. Grose, Voy. E. Indies, 43. Bombay, in fact, had long born an infamous character for unhealthfulness.
1802. Naval Chron., VIII. 147. The unhealthfulness of Madagascar.
1897. Bryce, Impress. S. Africa, 2. Its unhealthfulness is a factor of prime importance.
