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語源 1

From un- +‎ kindly.

形容詞

unkindly (comparative more unkindly, superlative most unkindly)

1. Not kindly.
   1. Not kind, lacking in friendliness, warm-heartedness or sympathy.
      • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:

        Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment.

      • 1906, E. Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4,^[1]

        […] she had seen a not unkindly wink pass between the two.

   2. (archaic) Rough, unfavourable, bad.
      • 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, London: Henry Brome, “Cyrus-Garden, or The Quincunx Naturally Considered,” p. 130,^[2]

        From this superfluous pulp in unkindely, and wet years, may arise that multiplicity of little insects, which infest the Roots and Sprouts of tender Graines and pulses.

      • 1789, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, 1834, Volume 1, p. 5,^[3]

        Unkindly cold and tempest shrill

        In life’s morn oft the traveller chill,

   3. (obsolete) Unnatural, contrary to the natural or proper order of things.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 1, page 10:

        That detestable sight him much amazde,
        To see th’vnkindly Impes of heauen accurst,
        Deuoure their dam;

      • 1678, Robert Sanderson, Nine Cases of Conscience Occasionally Determined, London: H. Brome et al., p. 128,^[4]

        […] the want of mercy in a Father, is more unkindly, more unseemly, more unnatural than in another man […]

派生語

• unkindliness

語源 2

From unkind +‎ -ly.

副詞

unkindly (comparative more unkindly, superlative most unkindly)

1. In an unkind manner.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     Good master, take it not unkindly, pray,
     That I have been thus pleasant [i.e. joking] with you both.

   • 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edlin, […]; W[illiam] Mears, […]; J. Brotherton, […]; C. King, and J. Stags, […], published 1722, OCLC 745118774:

     […] I had over-heard them several times talking very Unkindly about me;

   • 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (please specify |part=1 または 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, OCLC 30743985:

     If she and John love one another, they can wait, and test the love by doing so. She is conscientious, and I have no fear of her treating him unkindly.

   • 1918, Rose Macaulay, What Not, London: Constable, Chapter 11, p. 222,^[5]

     Chester and Prideaux were dragged firmly but not unkindly down the stairs and out through the door.

2. (obsolete) In an unnatural manner.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 455-458:

     All th’ unaccomplisht works of Natures hand,
     Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt,
     Dissolvd on earth, fleet hither, and in vain,
     Till final dissolution, wander here,