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un- +‎ rude

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unrude (comparative more unrude, superlative most unrude)

  1. Not rude.
    • 1648, Robert Herrick, “A Paneygeric to Sir Lewis Pemberton”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine [], London: [] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, [], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., [], 1844, →OCLC:
      Manners knows distance, and a man unrude / Would soon recoil, and not intrude / His stomach to a second meal.
      The spelling has been modernized.

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