Unwarlike

a. (UN-¹ 7 c.)

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 44. With womanish teares, and with vnwarlike smarts, Priuily moystening his horrid cheek.

1597.  Beard, Theatre God’s Judgem., I. vii. 21. Ioshua and his poore people (though vnwarlike and vnacquainted with such actions).

c. 1654.  Waller, Panegyric to Ld. Protector, 78. He safely might old troops to battle lead, Against th’ unwarlike Persian.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., II. 239. Cæsar, whose victorious Arms Avert unwarlike Indians from his Rome.

1739.  Glover, London, 473. Thy sons … vainly deem’d that wealth Could … protect Unwarlike freedom.

1841.  Elphinstone, Hist. Ind., I. 525. The inhabitants of the cultivated country were not unwarlike.

1878.  Stubbs, Const. Hist., III. xviii. 73. The only three unwarlike kings who had reigned since the Conquest.

  Hence Unwarlikeness.

1864.  Pusey, Lect. Daniel, v. 269. [Babylon’s] deliberated unwarlikeness stands in strange contrast to its subsequent energy in rebelling.

1891.  Santa Cruz Surf, 16 Sept., 2/2. There are sixty vacancies at West Point. This indicates a state of unwarlikeness among the youth of the land for which there is no precedent.