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unˈwarrantably, adv. (un-1 11.)
1634Canne Necess. Separ. 70 They found it..unwarrantably to be used for the edifying of the body of Christ. 1682C. Irvine Hist. Scott. Nomencl. Ded. *vj, You,..when they threw away their own Lives unwarrantably, bemoaned their madness. 1734Col. Rec. Pennsylv. III. 561 Unwarrantably confined in a loathsome Goal. 1808Coleridge Lett. (1895) 527 You have been, perhaps rather unwarrantably, severe on my morals. 1830Mackintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 198 Humility..has of late been unwarrantably used to signify that painful consciousness of inferiority which is the first stage of envy. 1890Spectator 30 Aug. 262/1 His name is unwarrantably dragged into a controversy with which he has nothing to do. |