A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1549-1600
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Unaffectionat, -effectionat, adj. [17th c. Eng. unaffectionate (Milton) not endowed with feeling; Affectionat adj. 3.] Impartial, unbiased. —1549 Lamb Resonyng 5/9.
Inglis. Ȝow do appeir juge oure weir iniust. Scott. Ȝe, forsuyth, and nocht the Scottis alane, bot also all vnaffectionat men, be thai Inglis … Frenche [etc.] 1563 Ferg. Tracts 23.
Nether doeth our doctrine repugne … as I trust the vnaffectionat reader shal perceaue 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 36b.
All men of syncere and vnaffectionat iugement 1573-1600 King Cat. in Cath. Tr. 202/15.
I think it [sc. the reformed calendar] sall be acceptable to the vnaffectionat ridar c1590 Fowler II 39/20.
It is notoriously knawin to al vneffectionat men, that [etc.]
