Unprincely a.

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1536. Q. Anne Boleyn, Lett. (1714), 38. Your unprincely and cruel usage of me.

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1593. Sidney’s Arcadia, V. (1922), II. 201. Constant suffering, that your unprincely dealing hath purchased unto you.

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1611. [see UNPRIESTLY a.]

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1613. Sherley, Trav. Persia, 29. As farre from … vanity as from all vnprincely signes, or acts.

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1649. Milton, Eikon., ix. 78. Not forgetting the unprincely usage, and … the abolishing of Parlaments.

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1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. 12. Nor would the unprincely wretch marry her till [etc.].

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1821. Joanna Baillie, Metr. Leg., Wallace, lxix. A base unprincely compact.

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1881. Tennyson, Cup, I. i. Some unprincely violence to a woman.

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