Unwomanly adv.

[UN-¹ 11.] In a manner unbecoming a woman.

  App. not used in 18th and early 19th c.; cf. prec.

c. 1400.  Pilgr. Sowle, IV. xxxviii. (MS. Bodl. 770), 79 b/2. Þis Same … helde a parlement ful vnwommanlie befor þe kynges presence.

1565.  Calfhill, Answ. Martiall, 78 b. She most vnwomanly scratched out the eyes of … hir owne sonne.

1684.  Bunyan, Pilgr., II. 13. For your poor Children’s sakes, do not so unwomanly cast away yourself.

1883.  D. C. Murray, Hearts, x. An evil story, though … not … a sad one, and all through most unwomanly womanly.

1891.  Kipling, Light that Failed, xiii. To justify herself, she began, unwomanly, to weigh the evidence.