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Unsainit, -sained, Unsanit, Un-, Wnsanyt, Unseaned, -seened, ppl. adj. [ME unseiene, -seinede (both Ancr. R.), OE unᵹesénod; Sain(e v.] Unblessed, ? unbaptised; unholy. Chiefly as a nickname. Cf. Unsanctified p.p. — 1513 Treas. Acc. IV 417.
Thomas Drummond, alias Thom Unsanit 1523 Haddington Corr. 249.
[Thomas Hamilton] alias Thome wnsanyt, or evil sanyt Thome 1524 Crim. Trials I i 126.
[Thomas Hammyltoun, called] vnsanyt [denounced rebel] 1681 Strathallan Geneal. Drummond 125.
Bot this Thomas Drummond refusing to give himselfe up with the rest … leaped over the castle wall, and so escaped … and was for that and some other bold pranks called ‘Tom unsained’ 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 250 (see Unsanctified p.p.).
Unseaned [1815 unseened]