c. 1665. Ctess Warwick, in C. F. Smith, Life, etc. (1901), 327. To be so unmodish as to walk in the straight and holy path.
1672. J. Phillips, Montelions Predict., 4. To offer more Reasons would be absurd and unmodish.
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 Towrs, | |
| And Grey, Religious Maids? |
1728. Morgan, Algiers, I. Pref. p. i. [I am] so impoliticly unmodish, that I never can speak one thing when I mean another.