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1583. Babington, Commandm. (1590), 372. Haue you not often refused of a meere pinching and an vnneighbourlie mind euen in small matters?
1601. J. Wheeler, Treat. Comm., 43. The proud, vnneighbourly … Proscriptions of the Dutchesse of Parma.
1657. Pierce, Div. Philanthr., Ded. 1. The late un-Neighbourly usage which I have publickly received.
1705. Sir J. Packington, in Hearne, Collections (O.H.S.), I. 125. Unneighbourly Proceedings against your own Tenants.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 307. These things are unneighbourly or unnatural, if we consider only their present effect upon the party suffering by them.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. 397. The cause of this unneighbourly irruption into Cumberland.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 18 June, 5/1. He could not conceive conduct worse and more unneighbourly.
1907. Mary E. Richmond, The Good Neighbor in the Modern City, 126. The most unneighborly thing that he can do is to refuse all, for some at least are the true successors of the Samaritan and of the innkeeper.
Hence Unneighbo(u)rliness.
1653. Bp. Webbe, Pract. Quiet. (1657), 155. Causing barrennesse of all goodnesse where there is that unquiet unneighbourliness.
1865. Meredith, R. Fleming, iv. The yeoman’s pride struggled to vindicate his unneighbourliness.
