[UN-1 11.]
1. In an unmannerly fashion; with lack of good manners; impolitely.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 2339. Be not so gryndel; No mon here vn-manerly þe mys-boden habbe[z].
1460. Capgrave, Chron. (Rolls), 145. Thei … treted the ladies onmanerly.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 192. In praying thou bokest vnmanerly, Spuing vp thy prayers … vndeuoutly.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, 210. If … so they should deliuer vs their opinion … we would hold them importunate and vnmannerly brought vp.
1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, V. xviii. 394. He, out of good manners, came close to him,… that the King might not be unmannerly left alone in the midst of the roome.
1682. C. Irvine, Hist. Scot. Nomencl., Ded. *iij b. They would easily excuse him … that must, with the croud, unmannerly approach your Highness.
1832. J. J. Blunt, Reform. in Eng., 209. The Reformers … did not unmannerly reject those Offices of the Church.
1859. Tennyson, Guinevere, 314. If I seem To vex an ear too sad to listen to me, Unmannerly, with prattling.
† 2. Improperly, immoderately. Obs.–1
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 53. Fraward men þer ar, þat þer wyffis for þer bewte vnmanerly lufys.
