a. (UN-1 7 c.)
1590. Sir J. Smyth, Disc. Weapons, Ded. 3. Their infinite vnsoldiorlike proceedings and disorders.
1600. Dymmok, Ireland (1843), 41. That advantage which was geven them by this unsoldior lyke encampinge.
1652. J. Wright, trans. Camus’ Nat. Paradox, III. 50. The unsoldier-like countenance of Iphigenes.
1721. De Foe, Mem. Cavalier (1840), 291. This was the most unsoldier-like action.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., II. 80. From their unsoldier-like impatience … their general permitted them to retire.
1810. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), I. 193/1. Those allowances have been abused in the meanest … and most unsoldier-like manner.
1861. G. Musgrave, By-Roads, 300. An abnormal and most unsoldierlike condition of things, which involved all the elements of weakness, incompetency, and defeat.
