1570. Levins, Manip., 26. Vnelegant, inelegans.
1611. Florio, Inelegante, vnelegant, without grace.
1666. Dryden, Ann. Mirab., Pref. I hope they are neither improper nor altogether unelegant in Verse.
1711. Spect., No. 67, ¶ 18. Concluding … that the Person who collected them is a Man of no unelegant Taste.
a. 1768. Secker, Serm. (1771), VII. xv. 343. Possibly in some of these Books you meet with Expressions … which appear unelegant and singular.
So † Unelegantly adv. Obs.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 517. Neither seemeth he unelegantly and besides the purpose … to have expressed as much in this verse.
1659. O. Walker, Oratory, 23. Transitions … are not unelegantly ushered in, by the Orators making Interrogations himself.
1758. Jortin, Erasm., I. 142. It was no wonder if they wrote it ill and unelegantly.
