unsonly
adjEtymology From un- + sonly.
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Not sonly.
- Who fancies for one instant that Our Lord could be unsonly? Who could fancy that He was not a real, but, on the contrary, a bogus, a spurious Son or a bare sketch of a Son? Who can harbor such an irreverent thought as to fancy Our Lord denied, in the least, the Son’s adequate tribute of love, respect, obedience and assistance to His Mother? And what a tribute! for, who knew better than Jesus the privations, the sacrifices, the devotion and, consequently, the merits of Mary, His sweet Mother? Who could be swifter than He, the world’s Exemplar, to repay all as a grateful and worthy Son?1898, Henry Aloysius Barry, “Our Lord, the Ideal Son”, in Salvation Through Mary, Boston, Mass.: Angel Guardian Press, page 177:
- Sparse mementoes—a baby’s shoe, a formal and unsonly letter, and a sad poem—which were found in the mother’s room after her death Thursday night, under an automobile, show the tenacity with which she clung to this one tie.1911 July 23, “Son to See Mother in Death. Only Relative Who Will Attend Funeral of Woman Auto Killed. Boy Wires from East. First Time in 22 Years He Will Gaze on Face of Devoted Parent.”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LXX, number 30, Chicago, Ill., section “Life’s Hope to See Son”, page 6, column 2:
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- Now even this was not for the time enough to convert an unsonly son.1918 June 20, “Best Editorial: National Topics as Discussed in Exchanges; War Savings Stamps—Their Significance”, in Burlington Daily News, volume 49, number 147, Burlington, Vt., page 4, column 3:
- And the boy did not feel like he wanted to do such an unsonly deed as to spend his dad’s money to go up in an airship against his dad’s wishes.1925 August 27, “Notes by the Editor”, in C. L. Ficklin, editor, The DeKalb County Herald, volume 59, number 5, Maysville, Mo., page [8], column 3:
- I am sorry, Mother, if my leavetaking appeared unsonly and ungrateful, but should I have listened to you, at home I would be at this very hour, and probably I wuold^([sic]) have never known what lay outside the very realm of my own backyard, but as it is now, I am very thankful that you were kind enough to let me accompany the Cap’n on this voyage.1930 July 20, “Road to Romance”, in The Commercial Appeal, volume CXX, number 20, Memphis, Tenn., chapter II, section “Writes Home”; section V, page 9, column 2:
- Rather, he charges that the apostasy of his son is so great that it disturbs the "Ghost" of his deceased mother, who fears that her son's unsonly disloyalty will threaten the "white fame" of the reputation for fidelity she now enjoys.1987, Gayle Shadduck, editor, A Critical Edition of Abraham Cowley's Davideis, New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 82: