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undeˈsignedly, adv. [un-1 11: cf. prec.] Without design or intention; unintentionally.
1687Boyle Martyrd. Theodora xi. 120 Having been, though undesignedly, so..accessory to the early loss of a life. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 679 It is better they should do good undesignedly..than not to do it at all. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. x. 299 Insensibly and undesignedly and from the operation of various causes. 1884Law Times 20 Sept. 345 It is this aspect..on which ‘W. B.’ seems, perhaps not altogether undesignedly, to have thrown most light. |