Unrule

[UN-¹ 12.] Absence of rule or government.

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1422. Yong, trans. Secreta Secret., 136. Whyle he regnyd in this vnrule…, into the land of Irlande he arryuete.

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c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., V. xii. 3724 (Wemyss MS.). Forthy it nedis þat ressoune Thyne vnreullis habandoun.

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1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxii. Now let’s hear … how, in the name of unrule, they got here at this time o’ night.

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1861. Sat. Rev., II. 670. A very few years more of republican unrule.

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