ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)

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1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 229. If reson be wel peised, Ther mai no vertu ben unpreised.

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1422.  Yong, trans. Secreta Secret., 130. Of the dyuersyte … of maneris wych ben praside and vnprayside.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 50. Vnpraysed, illaudatus.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 5. The land … was saluage wildernesse, Vnpeopled, vnmanurd, vnprou’d, vnpraysd.

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1634.  Milton, Comus, 723. Th’ all-giver would be unthank’t, would be unprais’d.

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1700.  Dryden, Cymon & Iph., 469. Unprais’d by me, tho’ Heav’n sometime may bless An impious Act with undeserv’d Success.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, V. 539. There is yet a liberty,… by senators unprais’d.

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1827.  Pollok, Course T., VII. 422. Innumerous armies rose, unbannered all, Unpanoplied, unpraised.

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1856.  R. A. Vaughan, Mystics, IX. iii. II. 151. How many women … are far surpassing St. Theresa in their self-sacrifice and patience, unseen and unpraised of men.

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1892.  [see UNPRAISABLE 1].

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