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English
Adjective
unnaturall (comparative more unnaturall, superlative most unnaturall)
- Obsolete spelling of unnatural.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:This man speakes of an unnaturall ill-favourdnesse and membrall deformity, but we call ill-favourdnesse a kinde of unseemelinesse at the first sight, which chiefely lodgeth in the face, and by the colour worketh a dislike in us.
1643, John Vicars, Prodigies & Apparitions, or, Englands Warning Piece,:[…] hath not the Lord used that other more terrible and heart-frighting course […] of Prodigies, Signes and Apparitions in the ayre, and other most degenerating, unnaturall and wonder-striking contingents amongst us here at home?
1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Hares”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC, 3rd book, page 120:[…] and what vices therein it [sc. the hare] figured; that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration or usury from its fecundity and superfetation, but from this mixture of sexes, unnaturall venery and degenerous effemination.