a. [UN-1 7. Cf. ON. úmjúk-r.]
1. Not meek or gentle; † unkind, harsh, cruel.
c. 1200. Ormin, 9880. Hæþenndom … Iss harrd & starrc all allse stan, Unnmeoc & all unnmilde.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 14616. Wit þaa vn-meke þar was he mett, And son wit þam he was vmsett.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 590. And she to me was nought vnmeke, Ne of hir answer daungerous. Ibid. (c. 1374), Boeth., IV. met. vii. (1886), 115. He … as it is sayd hath put an vnmeke lord [as] foddre to his crwel hors.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. xvii. 96. The ȝifte which he wol ȝeue into the resoun or vndirstonding of vmeke men.
1483. Cath. Angl., 233/1. Vn Meke, vbi felle.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys, 8. Do nat Poetis revyle … all suche as ar vnmeke, Prowde, Couetous?
1595. W. I., Two Disc. F. Guicciardin, A j b. Old fooles, yong maids,… Daunsing their roundes with Sathans dam vnmeeke.
a. 1653. Binning, Serm. (1845), 527. An unmeek spirit … troubles itself and annoys others.
1819. Keats, Ode Indolence, iii. The last, whom I love more, the more of blame Is heap’d upon her, maiden most unmeek.
2. Unsupple, stiff. Obs.–1
a. 1275. Prov. Ælfred, 538. Elde … makit him wel vnmeke, & binimit him is miȝte.
