Unenforced

ppl. a. Also 7 unin-. (UN-¹ 8.)

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1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 220. I will let you see how this doctrine ariseth kindly and vn-enforced from this scripture.

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1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, II. vi. 80. By a slow and uninforced inhibition of the old discipline.

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1646. Earl Monm., trans. Biondi’s Civil Wars, IX. 177. The Duke of Orleans would not, unenforced, yeeld to any Pacification.

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1833. Moore, Mem. (1854), VI. 267. Sifting both sides and leaving nothing unenforced on either.

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a. 1861. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng. III. 363. A formal … submission … unenforced by the sword.

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Hence Unenforcedly adv.

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1617. Hieron, Wks., II. 165. Foure points doe very kindly and vnenforcedly spring out of this place.

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