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1605. Shaks., Macb., III. iv. 107. Hence horrible shadow, Vnreall mock’ry hence.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., 60. Only for the fals keeping of a most unreal nullity, a mariage that hath no affinity with Gods intention. Ibid. (1667), P. L., X. 471. Th’ unreal, vast, unbounded deep Of horrible confusion.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 53, ¶ 3. You should … teach the Men not to be any longer dazzled by false Charms and unreal Beauty.
1746. Francis, trans. Horace, Epist., II. i. 289. He gives a desperate Trial of his Art,… Who with unreal Terrours fills my Breast.
1810. Southey, Kehama, IV. iv. Musing so long he lay, that all things seem Unreal to his sense, even like a dream.
1842. Manning, Serm., x. (1848), 139. Surrounding ourselves with an unreal world of hopes, and fears.
1871. Lowell, Study Windows, 153. Those who have most loudly advertised their passion for seclusion … have been mostly sentimentalists, unreal men.
spec. 1838. G. F. Graham, Mus. Comp., 17/2. What are called passing notes, or unreal notes, and which are said not to form any real part of the melody or the harmony.
1883. A. Sidgwick, Fallacies, 42. The distinction between Real and what may be called Unreal. Ibid. The name ‘Unreal’ as here applied to propositions, is somewhat wider than what is usually meant by ‘verbal.’
