Obs. [OE. uncristen (see UN-1 7 and CHRISTEN a.), = ON. úkristinn (Da. ukristen, Sw. okristen), OHG. unchristâni (MHG. unkristen).] = UNCHRISTIAN a. Also absol.
c. 1000. trans. Baeda’s Eccl. Hist., IV. xvi. (MSS. O and Ca.). Ðeah ðe hi þa ʓyta uncristene wæron.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. I. 91. Clerkes þat knowen hit scholde techen hit aboute, For Cristene and vn-cristene him cleymeþ vchone.
c. 1400. Rowland & Otuel, 218. For-thi hathe he sent the worde by mee, Þat þou schall vn-cristen bee.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 86. And a cristyn man war in a bataill … agayn the uncristyn. Ibid., 298. Paganis that we call unCristyn men.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 201. All the land about, Trembling for feare of the unchristen route, Of cursed Turkes and other infidels.
1553. Respublica, I. i. 71. My veray trewe vnchristen Name ys Avarice.
Hence † Unchristenness. Obs.–1
c. 1548. in Strype, Cranmer, II. viii. (1694), 176. Making the same … a Den or Sink of all Unchristiness.
