a. Obs. [OE. unorne, f. un- UN-1 7 + orne unusual, excessive (?).]
1. Of persons: Plain (in manners or appearance); humble, simple; mean, wretched.
c. 1000. Battle of Maldon, 256. Dunnere þa cwæð,… unorne ceorl ofer eall clypode.
c. 1200. Ormin, 4884. Forr Godess Sune … Warrþ an unnorne & wrecche mann.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 424. Ancre þet naueð nout neih hond hire uode, beoð bisie two wummen,… and þeo beo ful unorne, oðer of feir elde.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 1492. If hire louerd is forwurþe & vnorne at bedde and at borde.
a. 1300. K. Horn, 330. Ne spek ihc noȝt wiþ horn, Nis he noȝt so unorn; Horn is fairer þane beo he.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 7485. Episcropus that schrewe vnorne Might not his word performe.
a. 1470. H. Parker, Dives & Pauper (W. de W., 1496), IV. xxvii. 195/1. Suche ye shall be…, feble, unourne, & loth to the syght.
transf. c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 876. Now age vnourne a-wey putteþ fauour, Þat floury youþe in his seson conquerde.
2. Of things: Poor or inferior in quality, amount, or appearance.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 85. Þenne he brohte hine uppen his werue, þet is unorne mare, þet bitacned ure unorne fleis.
c. 1200. Ormin, 828. I þe wesste þær he wass Hiss fode wass unnorne.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 708. Uorto leren ancren þet heo ne gruchie neuermore uor none mete, ne uor none drunche, ne beo hit neuer so unorne.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 317. Mi stefne is bold & nouht vnorne.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xiii. (Tollem. MS.). Yf þe nose lakkeþ, all þe toþer del of þe face is þe more unhorne and unsemely.
Hence † Unornly adv. Obs.
c. 1200. Ormin, 3750. Þatt te birrþ aȝȝ … lætenn swiþe unnorneliȝ & litell off þe sellfenn. Ibid., 4858.
c. 1300. Havelok, 1941. Me wore leuere i wore lame, Þanne men dide him ani shame,… or onne handes leyde, Vn-ornelike.
