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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unloyall, adj. [e.m.E. unloyal (1594), unloyall (1600); Loyall adj.] a. Of manufactured goods: Unsound, sub-standard. b. Of persons: Disloyal. —a. 1622 Conv. Burghs III 136.
Galloway cairsayes, they find … to haif bein vnloyall and vnsufficient merchandice 1622 Conv. Burghs III 137.
They find the … wobs of plaiding to be so falsifiet be mixing of diuers wooles [etc.] … that the same is becum vnloyall merchandice —b. 16.. Maidment Balfour Ballads 14.
To prove unloyall to thy native king, That treason were, and a most shamefull thing
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