a. Obs. [UN-1 7, 5 b.] Unfashionable.

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c. 1665.  C’tess Warwick, in C. F. Smith, Life, etc. (1901), 327. To be so unmodish as … to walk in the straight and holy path.

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1672.  J. Phillips, Montelion’s Predict., 4. To offer more Reasons … would be absurd and unmodish.

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1716.  Lady M. W. Montagu, Toilet, 20.

  At Chappel shall I wear the Morn away?
Who there appears at those unmodish Hours,
But Ancient Matrons with their Frizled Tow’rs,
And Grey, Religious Maids?

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1728.  Morgan, Algiers, I. Pref. p. i. [I am] so impoliticly unmodish, that I never can speak one thing when I mean another.

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