Now rare. [UN-1 11. Cf. Du. onmanlijk, ON. úmannliga (MSw. omanlika).]
1. Dishonorably; treacherously.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 13785. [A] kyng … By the myrmydons vnmonly murtherit to dethe.
c. 1465. Eng. Chron. (Camden, 1856), 50. He was traitorly and vnmanli slayn, and cast in to a pit.
1626. R. Peeke, Three to One, B 3. Some of our Men were vnfortunately and vnmanly surprised, and before they knew their owne danger, had their Throates cutte.
2. Inhumanely; with unmanly cruelty or unkindness.
c. 1475. Cath. Angl., 227/2. Vn-Manly, inhumaniter.
1594. Selimus, 1513. Shall he thus unmanly be misus’d?
1658. Cleveland, Rustic Ramp., Wks. (1687), 464. A Dominion so unmanly cruel.
1673. Hickeringill, Greg. F. Greyb., 46. If he had not so unmanly … play’d upon the dead.
1717. Mrs. Centlivre, Cruel Gift, IV. Unmanly dost thou urge my Father’s faults.
1824. T. Fenby, Last Sad Scene, viii. This was all for him who hath, Untimely and unmanly, left me.
3. With unmanly weakness.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1595), 908. So he tooke his banishment vnmanly.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 61. We ought not to heare the reprehensions … of Philosophers recklessly…, nor yet unmanly.
