Unkindly adv.

[repr. OE. unʓecyndelíce, or in later use f. UN-¹ 11 + KINDLY adv.]

  † 1.  a. With unnatural immorality or impropriety. Obs.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 50. Ne of tollinde lokunges, ne lates, þæt summe,… weilawei! unkundeliche makieð.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 28495. Wit womman seke vmquile haue i And vnkyndeli don licheri.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pardoner’s T., 485. Lo how þat dronken loth vnkyndely Lay by his doughtres two vnwityngly.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 13820. Now full hard … is þi hegh lust, Þat þou couetus vnkyndly to couple with me.

1579.  [see UNKINGLY adv.].

1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XIII. lxxvi. 315. Vnkindly though Nature it is defaced so in some, As that by often sinning Sinne an habette doth become.

  † b.  With unnatural enmity, harshness, or cruelty. Obs.

c. 1300.  Beket (Percy Soc.), 1540. The Kyng … sende him word that him thoȝte … That hi wolde him so moche misdo uncundeliche and wouȝ.

1535.  Coverdale, 2 Macc. xv. 2. O do not so cruelly and vnkyndly [1611 barbarously], but halowe y^e Sabbath daye.

1547.  J. Harrison, Exhort. Scottes, h j b. That you … should thus vnkindly, vnnaturally, and vnchristenly bathe youre swoordes in eche others blode.

1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. IV. Handy-crafts, 7. Envious Cain His (better) Brother doth vnkindly brain. Ibid. (1605), iii. IV. Captains, 833. Lo there, another valiant Champion … His onely Daughter doth unkindly kill.

  † c.  Contrary to right feeling or conduct; improperly; ungratefully. Obs.

1380.  Lay Folk’s Catech. (L.), 952. [To] be euer sory … for he haþ greuyd god so vnkendely.

1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. IV. 264. Vnkyndely þow, conscience, consailedest hym þennes, To lete so hus lordshup for a lytel moneye.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 365/2. On-kyndely yn herte, ingratanter, acaride.

1470–1.  Rolls of Parlt., VI. 233/1. Unnaturelly, unkyndly and truly entendyng his destruccion.

1567.  Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.), 65. Lat nocht my hart vnkyndlie depart, From the rycht lufe of thy mercie.

1588.  Shaks., Titus, V. iii. 104. Lastly, [I was] my selfe vnkindly banished.

  † 2.  Unsuitably. Obs. rare.

c. 1300.  Havelok, 1250. Goldeborw … wende she were bi-swike, Þat she were yeuen un-kyndelike.

1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. X. 177. Summe … For Couetise of Catel vnkuyndeliche beoþ maried.

  † b.  Contrary to the usual course of nature; at variance with natural conditions. Obs.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 292. Unkindeliche he was transformed, That he which erst a man was formed Into a womman was forschape.

1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 3530. But ye wolden … Tourne vnkyndely my wyn In-to blood, folk for to drynke.

1541.  R. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., 2 B j. There must be had delyberacyon, to knowe yf all the party dyscoloured and hardened vnkyndly ought to be cut.

1615.  W. Lawson, Country Housew. Gard. (1626), 8. Who did euer know a tree so vnkindly splat, come to age?

1667.  Milton, P. L., III. 456. All th’ unaccomplisht works of Natures hand, Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt,… fleet hither.

1703.  Rowe, Fair Penit., I. i. You mourn unkindly by your self, And rob me of my Partnership of Sadness.

1766.  Compl. Farmer, s.v. Malt, The malt … appears shrivelled, and often is unkindly hard.

  c.  Badly, unsuccessfully.

1763.  Mills, Pract. Husb., III. 128. Kiln-drying is apt to make wheat grind unkindly.

1811.  Self Instructor, 516. Umber is … very greasy, and mixes unkindly with water-colours.

1887.  Daily News, 21 July, 2/4. Fanfare remained a staunch favourite to the end. He, however, ran very unkindly.

  3.  In an unkind or unkindly manner; with marked want of kindness.

c. 1384.  Chaucer, H. Fame, I. 295. How he betrayed hir allas, And lefte hir ful vnkyndely.

14[?].  Sir Beues (C.), 1448. That he tolde me not, when he went, Iwysse, he dud onkyndely, verament.

c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xvii. 397. The whiche Reynawde kepeth … for his prysoner not vnkyndely.

1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 183. But why vnkindly didst thou leaue me so?

1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 114. Vnkindly to cast him of that had so honorably vsed him in like extremitie.

1695.  Ld. Preston, Boeth., II. 55. She hath looked unkindly upon thee.

1768.  Sterne, Sent. Journ., Snuff-box. I treated him most unkindly; and from no provocations.

1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, x. ‘You will not deal so unkindly with us, cousin,’ replied the gentle Monarch.

1889.  B. Whitby, Awakening Mary Fenwick, II. 45. Don’t haul me over the coals so unkindly.

  Comb.  1605.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iii. II. Fathers, 480. Among them all … you shall not finde Such an example, where (unkindly-kinde) Father and Son so mutually agree.

a. 1699.  J. Beaumont, Psyche, XII. v. Nor could unkindly-courteous He resist The huging of his Spouse’s seeming Friend.

  4.  With dissatisfaction or resentment.

  Freq. in the phrase to take (…) unkindly.

1562.  Gresham, in Burgon, Life (1839), I. 448. Assewring yow, I doo take it very unkindelye at your handes.

1607.  Shaks., Timon, III. vi. 39. I hope it remaines not vnkindely with your Lordship, that I return’d you an empty Messenger.

1635.  Argt. Pastoral of Florimene, 6. Florimene desires Dorine not to take it unkindly, if [etc.].

1725.  De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 91. Nothing to be had but for ready money; which our men took so unkindly,… that [etc.].

1771.  Junius Lett., l. (1788), 270. The only letter I ever addressed to the King was … unkindly received.