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: 1499-1526
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Unvertuous, -tuuse, -teous, adj. [Late ME and e.m.E. unvertuous (1432), unvertuose (c1456), unvirtuous (1741); Vertu(o)us adj.] Lacking in virtue; base, ignoble. —a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow 808 (L).
God tuk frome the vnverteous man a penny 1525 St. P. Henry VIII IV 312.
Our said soverane lord maist nobill persoun is drawin and inclinit to myshaiffingis and unvertuuse usagis 1526 Acts II 312/1.
Evill disposit persouns that mycht … pres thame to draw his hienes to vnprofitable and vnvertuous havingis
