Middle English Dictionary Entry
unmanerlī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | unmanerlī adj. |
| Etymology | From manē̆rlī adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of a person: unruly, disorderly; of one’s words or bearing: inappropriate, improper.
Associated quotations
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Rom.1.31 : God bitook hem in to a repreuable wit, that thei do tho thingis that ben not couenable…not obeschynge to fadir and modir, vnwise, vnmanerli [L incompositos] withouten loue, withouten boond of pees, with outen merci.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Kath.Sienna (Dc 114)194/19 : For of þis large mater myȝt be made many bokes, I wole make an ende of myn vnmanerly wordes.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Mary Oign.(Dc 114)139/11-12 : Wee myghte neuer or selden perceyue in hir ydel worde or vnordynat lokynge or vnhonest hauynge of body or vnmesurabil laghter or vnsem and vnmanerly [L inordinatum] berynge of body.