Unchivalric

a. [UN-¹ 7.] = next.

1825.  C. Mills, Hist. Chivalry, II. iv. 182. I cannot believe, with some writers, that the unchivalric conduct of Peter stimulated the heroism of these adventures.

1825.  E. Taylor, Lays Minnesingers, 43. The singular and unchivalric mode of addressing and complimenting the lady, by reminding her of her being made for a slave, is sufficiently distinctive of this class of poetry from the Provençal taste.

1829.  R. Chambers, Sonnet to Lady D——, 1, in Poems (1835), 36.

1851.  Westm. Rev., LV. April, 12. Even before the knightly spear ceased to be couched, the poetry of chivalry was gone; and Lord Marmion stands near enough for us to note, with much self-gratulation on our own unchivalric aspect, the heavy armour (head-piece included) and awkward gait of the stalwart knight.

1868.  W. R. Greg, Lit. & Soc. Judgm. (1869), 180. That into these liaisons the men appear habitually to import a coarseness and a cruelty, as well as an unchivalric and ungenerous roughness, indicating, not so much that they do not appreciate the sacrifice which the woman makes in giving herself to them, as that they do not believe it is any sacrifice at all.

1877.  Mrs. Phelps, Story of Avis, 191. He stood afar off from a struggle upon which he felt it unchivalric to urge, more than need inevitably be, the appeal of his physical wreck and disordered future.

1896.  Molly Elliot Seawell, A Strange, Sad Comedy, xi. 241–2. The Colonel … harangued to Letty privately upon Romaine’s deuced unchivalric conduct to a noble, attractive, and blameless woman.

1911.  E. Phillpotts, Wild Fruit, 36.

  Hence Unchivalricly adv.

1915.  Mary Hastings Bradley, The Splendid Chance, xv. 152. In a society where chivalric custom had sheered mankind of its pointed clarity of speech to the other sex, however unchivalricly its masculine behaviors may veer beneath the veil, Katherine had not known such taunts could be endured.