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(Unfrendlines,) Unfriendliness, -frindlenes, n. [18th c. Eng. unfriendliness (a1768); Frendlines n.] Unfriendliness. — 1557 14th Rep. Hist. MSS App. iii 29.
With power to the said Murchie … to pas and repas … but ony vexatioun vnfrindlenes, disfrencheschip or vnkyndnes be ws a1684 Leighton Comm. Peter ii (1693) 351.
But by the troubles and unfriendliness of the world he gains this
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