c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IX. 347. We fand nane in that art, That proffryt ws sic wnkyndlynes.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xvii. 308. His wrath … cannot bee kindled against nature…, but against the faultinesse and vnkindlynesse that are in nature.
1627. Hakewill, Apol., II. § 3. 133. The vnkindlinesse of the weather now … hurtfull to the fruites.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., II. ix. 223. The … unkindliness of the Season.
1763. Mills, Pract. Husb., I. 206. The uncommon … unkindliness of the soil.
1797. Lamb, Lett. to Coleridge, 7 April. Clear from the imputation of unkindliness (a word, by which I mean the diminutive of unkindness).
1859. Tennyson, Merlin & V., 735. Kill’d with inutterable unkindliness.
