a. (UN-1 7.)
1846. Worcester (citing Scott).
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xxxvii. Such a bad pupil, monsieur! so thankless, cold-hearted, unchivalrous, unforgiving.
1880. Swinburne, Stud. Shaks., 274. A garb of transforming verse under a guise at once weak and wordy, coarse and unchivalrous.
Hence Unchivalrously adv.
[1847. Webster.]
1889. Sat. Rev., 26 Jan., 103. He somewhat unchivalrously refused her request for a safe conduct.