a. (UN-1 7.)
1643. Prynne, Sov. Power Parl., I. Pref. (ed. 2), A ij b. The cordiallest Endevours of a reall unmercenary Philo-pater.
1692. Atterbury, Serm. (1726), I. 19. Praise is a generous and unmercenary Principle.
1702. S. Parker, trans. Cicero’s De Finibus, II. 135. An Inbred and Unmercenary Goodness of Temper.
1891. Meredith, One of our Conq., xxix. She was all impulse; a shifty piece of unmercenary stratagem occasionally directing it.
Hence Unmercenariness.
1863. N. & Q., 3rd Ser. IV. 301. The genus ‘he-flirt,’ a race which is unhappily increased by the unmercenariness of mothers and chaperones.
