[UN-1 12; cf. prec.] The quality or fact of being unpopular.
1735. Ld. Lyttelton, Lett. Persian (ed. 3), I. 214. You are afraid of the Unpopularity of the Sound.
1781. Johnson, L. P., Dryden, Wks. 1787, II. 412. The original impropriety, and the subsequent unpopularity of the subject.
1810. Coleridge, Friend, 355. The last War … had yet causes of unpopularity peculiar to itself.
1878. Lecky, Eng. in 18th C., I. iii. 432. The Government was now too weak to bear the strain of additional unpopularity.
