Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disobedient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Disobedient.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
disobedient
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Examples
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"But whom hath mine uncle wed, that is thus unbuxom [disobedient] to him?"
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"Dame, I must needs say you be rare unbuxom and unthankful."
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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(all in Chaucer); ‘buxom’, but not ‘unbuxom’ (Dryden); ‘hasty’, but not
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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a severely learned or, as its author terms it, unbuxom book.
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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"So did he, in very deed; and yet is she thus unbuxom.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Cobham, both heresy and treason are specified as the crimes of which he had been convicted "that was miscreant and unbuxom to the law of God, and
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820
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