ppl. a. Also 45 -avanced, 5 -avaunced. [UN-1 8.] Not advanced or promoted; not pushed forward.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 205. If it is along on me Of that ye unavanced be, The sothe schal be proved nou.
14112. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 5274. So manny a worthi clerk famouse, In Oxinford, and in Cambrigge also, Stonde vnavanced.
1491. Act 7 Hen. VII., c. 12. Preamble. His Highnes entendith to provyde his children unavaunced to be preferred.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 832. In the meane time matters stood stil altogether vnaduanced.
1741. T. Robinson, Gavelkind, App. Qq iv b. The youngest Son was the Child, if any, left unadvanced at the Death of his Father.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, 367. Young men unadvanced beyond the lowest knowledge of the elements of primary school learning.
1892. Pall Mall G., 26 Sept., 3/3. Both advanced and unadvanced members of unincorporated societies.