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unduly, adv.|ʌnˈdjuːlɪ|
[un-1 11: cf. undue a.]
1. Without due cause or justification; without proper regard to right and wrong; unrightfully, improperly.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles ii. 124 Þus ȝe derid hem vnduly with droppis of anger. 1426Audelay Poems (Percy Soc.) 35 Aȝayns the order of holé cherch and Goddys ordenawns This dole is undeulé dalt, hit maketh dystans. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 44 b, Nether is nothing so [un]couenable to a king as to coueyte vnduely the goodes of his peple. 1598Florio, Indebitamente, vndulie, vnlawfullie. 1657in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 214 The same Ley shalbe denyed and not paid, being unduly taxed. 1687Reason. Toleration 33 Unless it can be prov'd that it is for the Common Good,..the Penal Laws are unduly made. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. III. xix. 161 Remitting and relaxing to all persons..all the fruits and profits from the same taken, however unduly. 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 394 She could only feel reproach from a conquest, unduly, unfairly and uningenuously obtained. 1844Mrs. Browning Lost Bower ix, While beyond,..Malvern hills, for mountains counted Not unduly, loom a-row.
b. Irregularly.
1660Jer. Taylor Ductor iii. iv. rule 16 §4 Alexander the third..was a schismatical Pope,..and unduly elected.
†2. Without due care or industry; badly; not in the right way. Obs.
1423Rolls of Parlt. IV. 255/2 All the werk of Brauderie so undwely made as above. 1444Ibid. V. 108/1 Divers Sherryffs..unduely and yvell and untruely served the Kyng and his poeple. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 35 b, Many erre by cause they seke her [sc. Wisdom] vnduely and blame her without cause.
3. More than is due or proper; excessively.
a1779Warburton Serm. Wks. 1788 V. 431 The mechanism of the body,..when unduly agitated either by sensation or reflection. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iv. §19. 276 Unquestionably External evidences..have been unduly magnified. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1875) III. xiii. 281 On such mere backslidings William had never been unduly harsh. |