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imˈprovidently, adv.
[f. improvident a. + -ly2.]
1. In an improvident manner; without forethought; without providing for the future.
1607Donne Lett. (1651) 209, I went unprofitably and improvidently, to the utmost end of Truth. 1688Boyle Final Causes Nat. Things iv. 203 It must be casually or improvidently framed or placed. 1780Burke Sp. Econ. Reform Wks. III. 333 To recommit all its business to the council from whence it was very improvidently taken. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. viii. (1876) 70 Agricultural labourers marry early and improvidently.
2. In an unforeseen or unanticipated manner. rare.
1885E. F. Byrrne Entangled I. i. viii. 139 Nature may treacherously and improvidently back-water; and he dreaded to be landed incontinently in the stagnation of satiety. |