adv. (UN-1 11.)

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 10426. heading, Menon þe Kyng, by Achilles vnmonfully slayn.

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1664.  Etheredge, Love in Tub, I. ii. Now have I most unmanfully fallen foul upon some Woman.

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1670.  Milton, Hist. Eng., VI. 305. They dy’d not unmanfully,… turning oft upon thir Enemies.

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1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 133, ¶ 2. When a Poor-spirited Creature … bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him.

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[1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr., III. ii. It was the terror … of doing … unvirtuously, which was their word for unmanfully.]

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