unagreable
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]unagreable (comparative more unagreable, superlative most unagreable)
- Obsolete spelling of unagreeable..
- 1643, An Exact Collection of All Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Proclamations, Petitions, Messages, Answers, and Other Remarkable Passages Betweene the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and His High Court of Parliament Beginning at His Majesties Return from Scotland, Being in December 1641, and Continued Untill March the 21, 1643. […], London: […] Edward Husbands, T. Warren, R. Best, […], page 264:
- The next Charge upon us is, That inſtead of giving his Majeſty ſatisfaction, we publiſhed a Declaration concerning that buſineſſe, as an appeal to the people, and as if our intercourſe with his Majeſty, and for his ſatisfaction, were now to no more purpoſe, which courſe is alleadged to be very unagreable to the modeſty and duty of former times, and not warrantable by any Preſidents, but what our ſelves have made.
- 1673, [Richard Allestree], The Ladies Calling, second impression, at the Theater in Oxford, pages 10–11:
- But I believe it is not more frequently introduc’d by any thing then the vanity of Wit, which has no where a more free and exorbitant range than in cenſuring and deriding; nay, finds not only Exerciſe but Triumph too, vain Perſons ſeldom conſidering the Infirmities or Follies of others, without ſom Complacencies, and aſſuming reflections on themſelves; which how unagreable it renders this liberty of talking to that Modeſty we recommend, is ovious enough .
- 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 6, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, pages 74–75:
- Lady D. was of middle height, stout, upright & alert in her motions, with a shrewd eye, & self-satisfied air—but not an unagreable Countenance—& tho’ her manner was rather downright & abrupt, as of a person who valued herself on being free-spoken, there was a good humour & cordiality about her—a civility & readiness to be acquainted with Charlotte herself, & a heartiness of welcome towards her old friends, which was inspiring the Good will, she seemed to feel;—[…]