A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1520-1535
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Unprudent, Umprudent, adj. [ME and e.m.E. vnprudent (Wyclif); Prudent adj.] Imprudent, unwise. —c1520-c1535 Nisbet 1 Peter ii 15.
For sa is the will of God, that ye do wele, and mak the vncunnyngnes of vmprudent [P. vnprudent] men to be dombe 1531 Bell. Boece I 80.
Eschew warly that ye by fuliche and unprudent bergane, bring nocht youre self … to irrecoverable dammage 1531 Bell. Boece I 105.
Gif he wald … perseveir be unprudent hatrent … answerit [etc.] 1531 Bell. Boece II 41.
Thay schew that he was unprudent, in sa far as he enrichit the Saxonis with landis [etc.] … in distructioun of all his realme and legis
