a. Obs. [UN-1 7.]
1. Not honorable; not deserving of honor.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2950. Sen þis vse is here vn-honourable, here I þam leue.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 280. He war a wikkit man of lyf, a tyran and unhonourable.
1548. Geste, Pr. Masse, 117. Why then shuld … thee presence therof cause to honour his Godhed in the same, ther otherwyse unhonourable.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 209. To trace out an unhonourable and fruitlesse life.
1635. [Glapthorne], Lady Mother, III. ii., in Bullen, O. Pl. (1883), II. 161. We are noe peasants or unhonorable To be affronted with indignities.
2. Dishonorable, discreditable.
1540. Sir T. Wyatt, Lett. to Cromwell, 5 April. If it were so the King’s pleasure, I would make him such company as should not be unhonourable to the King.
1595. Daniel, Civ. Wars, II. xxiv. Th’ vnhonourable means of safety, bade Danger accept, what Maiesty withstood.
1621. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1906), I. 274. Unhonnorable action by breatch of his word and cowle.
