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  1.  Absence of staidness in conduct or opinion.

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c. 1550.  Cheke, Matt. xxiii. 25. For ie clense ye outward part of ye cup … but ye insijd is ful of robri and vnstaidnes.

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1583.  Golding, Calvini on Deut., xxxviii. 227. That we must not defile our selues with any vnchastitie or vnstayednesse.

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1650.  Holyday, Persius’ Sat., V. 41. Nothing hinders thee … But Luxurie. That doth seduce thy weake Unstayednesse.

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1675.  Barclay, Apol. Quakers, xi. § 8. 358. The unstayedness of their Minds.

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1828.  E. Irving, Last Days, 326. The former [trait] expressing haste, precipitancy, and unstayedness.

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  † 2.  Physical unsteadiness. Obs.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, I. ix. With a kind of shaking unstayednes over all his body.

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1607.  Markham, Cavel., VII. 59. When … the orifice by the vnstaidnes of the Farriers hand, is made too great.

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