Unleal

a. Now arch. [UN-¹ 7.] Unfaithful, disloyal, dishonest, false.

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a. 1300. Cursor M., 13173. Wit him-self he wex ful wrath,… Þat men suld hald him for vn-lele. Ibid., 25167. Vr praier es vn-lele And askes gains vr saul hele.

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c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, vii. (Jacob), 456. Sa þat na lele man suld forfare amange vnlele þat wekit ware.

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1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XIV. 69. Boþe louye and lene þe leelle and þe vnleelle.

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1430. in Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903), 203. Þou lyuest a letcherouse lijf vnleel.

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1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 30. Untrewe and unlele to thair soveraynis lordis.

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1528. Lyndesay, Dreme, 313. Sum part thair was of vnleill Lauboraris.

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c. 1560. A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.), xxiii. 25. Hir fenȝeit wordis fals,… And als the luik vnleill Of hir bricht fair ene twane.

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1848. Lytton, Harold, I. i. Words so unleal and foul. Ibid., XII. v. I hold it … disgrace to barter words with a knight unleal.

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