Unbred

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b.]

  † 1.  Unborn. Obs.^–1

c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., civ. For feare of which, heare this thou age vnbred, Ere you were borne was beauties summer dead.

  2.  Not properly bred or brought up; not imbued with good manners; unmannerly, ill-bred.

1622.  in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1908), II. 146. Borish unbred upstartts, whoe abound in all pryde and insolenceey.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, I. (1662), 34. Seeing much of Truth is contained in our English Proverb, It is as good to be unborn as unbred.

1700.  Congreve, Way of World, III. xvii. My nephew’s a little unbred, you’ll pardon him, madam.

1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 492, ¶ 2. A little Country Girl … that makes her use of being young and unbred.

1760–2.  Goldsm., Cit. W., xxxix. Would he not be reckoned more fantastically savage than even his unbred footman?

  b.  Not trained in, not brought up to, some occupation.

a. 1683.  Oldham, Wks. (1686), 68. Dull Northern Brains, in these deep Arts unbred, Know nought but to cut Throats.

1697.  Dryden, Æneis, VII. 1096. A warrior dame; Unbred to spinning, in the loom unskilled.

1878.  N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 304. With no education,… often unbred to any handicraft.