a. (UN-1 7. Cf. MDu. onsimpel.)
1541. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., A ij b. For to a symple dysease a symple healynge is due, and to a composed dysease a healynge vnsymple.
a. 1750. A. Hill, Wks. (1753), II. 274. Every thing is … unsimple, that has foreign and unnatural annexions.
1797. Lamb, Lett. to Coleridge, 13 Feb. I wonder you do not perceave … something unsimple and artificial in the expression, ‘voiced a sad tale.’
1862. H. Aïdé, Carr of Carrlyon, II. 230. The very unsimple manners of the English lady (they could hardly be called affected, they were so much a part of herself).
