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1. Not evoking feelings of love or affection; unattractive, unpleasant, repellent.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XII. 244. For þe pekok … is … vnlouelich of ledene. Ibid., XV. 114. Ȝowre wordes … aren ful vnlouelich.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xii. Both [were] wearie of so unlovely embracements.
1670. Baxter, Cure Ch. Div., Pref. II. § 6. They are agreed in the assumption, that their neighbour is unlovely.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., III. 403. By passionately loving life, we make Lov’d life unlovely.
1817. [W. Beloe], Sexagenarian, I. 35. This unlovely branch of writing [sc. satire].
1889. Times, 3 Dec., 9/3. This very unlovely quarrel.
2. Unattractive or unpleasing in appearance; unhandsome; ugly.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XI. 262. Ac let hure be vnloueliche, vnlofsom a bedde [etc.].
c. 1450. Lovelich, Merlin, 6447. A ful old man … that onlovely was of face & lere.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VI. vii. 33. The wofull pule, with wattir wnluffly.
1598. R. Haydocke, trans. Lomazzo, II. 133. A discontented woman … will seeme yl-favored and vnloouely.
1647. Torshell, Designe disp. Bible, 7. He that looks upon an unlovely thing, with the eye of love, thinks it lovely.
1734. Thomson, Liberty, IV. 6. Unlovely forms Of little pomp.
1820. Shelley, Sensit. Pl., II. 42. Gnawing worms, And things of obscene and unlovely forms.
1895. P. Hemingway, Out of Egypt, II. 156. The town of Port Said is unlovely.
