Middle English Dictionary Entry
unlīke adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | unlīke adv. Also unliche, onliche. |
| Etymology | From līke adv. or unlīk(e adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. uniliche adv.
1.
(a) In a different manner, differently;
(b) unequally; also, incomparably [last quot.].
Associated quotations
a
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.129 : Some supposen þat verray good be þat To ben onered oþer men vnliche.
b
- ?c1335 Þe king of heuen (Hrl 913)p.124 : World is wel falliþ vnliche And noȝt euch man ilich.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)641/15 : The turtur…is a symple bridde as þe coluer and is also vnliche & moche more [L longe dispariter] chaste.
- ?a1425 Glo.Chron.B (Dgb 205)786/58 : Vnliche [vr. onlyche; Trin-C: Þe oþere were strengore & Richore oniliche].