1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 228. It is thing lawfull and not vncommendable.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke, Pref. C j b. It is vncommendable thorough vain arrogancie to take vpon vs that we haue not.
1603. Breton, Dial. Pith & Pleas., Wks. (Grosart), II. 9/2. The most dishonourable, and vncommendable of all creatures in the world.
1697. Jos. Woodward, Relig. Soc., i. (1701), 15. I know no worldly, sinister, or uncommendable design proposed or prosecuted thereby.
1758. Walpole, Catal. Roy. Authors (1759), II. 172. This is the only uncommendable performance of our Author’s life.
Hence Uncommendably adv.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, I. xii[i]. (Arb.), 126. As he that translated certaine bookes of Virgils Eneydos in such measures and not vncommendably.
1882. Academy, 16 Dec., 433/3. He dipped a little into scholarship, too, and not uncommendably.
