a. [UN-1 7. Cf. UNTROTHFUL.]

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  † 1.  Unbelieving, infidel. Obs.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxvii. (Machor), 846. Dewenik can to catnes pas, to folk þat þan wntreuthtfull was.

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1456.  Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 108. The traytouris untreuthfull sais that the grete Cane is lord of all the warld.

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  2.  Not truthful; untrue.

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[1847.  Webster.]

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1854.  Patmore, Angel in Ho., I. viii. 5. The candid skies At our untruthful strangeness laugh’d.

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1871.  Jowett, Plato, II. 20. As men become better such theories appear more and more untruthful to them.

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  Hence Untruthfully adv., Untruthfulness.

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[1847.  Webster, *Untruthfully.]

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1879.  Temple Bar Mag., Sept., 45. ‘I am sorry,’ says Tremaine, untruthfully.

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1830.  Carlyle, Misc. Ess. (1872), III. 53. But it always is our duty … not to avoid unweddedness by *untruthfulness.

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1863.  Mansel, Lett., Lect., etc. (1873), 239. The glaring untruthfulness and incongruity of the story.

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