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inordinately, adv.|ɪnˈɔːdɪnətlɪ|
[f. inordinate a. + -ly2.]
In an inordinate manner or degree; in a way that is unruly or disorderly, irregularly; without government or restraint, unrestrainedly, intemperately; beyond measure, immoderately, excessively, extravagantly.
c1400Apol. Loll. 105 Breþern, we warn ȝow..þat ȝe wiþ draw ȝow fro ilk broþer going inordinatly. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. vi. 8 Whan euer a man couetiþ eny þing inordinatly, anoon he is unrestid in himself. 1526Tindale 2 Thess. iii. 7 We behaved not oure selves inordinatly amonge you. 1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 124 Wine inordinately taken troubleth mans reason. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxvii. §10 Ambition..hath been accounted a vice which seeketh after honours inordinately. 1694Kettlewell Comp. Persecuted 147 Those things which I..have been the most inordinately fond of. 1736Butler Analogy i. iv. 103 Passions inordinately excited. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 173/1 He was exceedingly vain, and inordinately selfish. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xi. (1873) 297 Each species tends to increase inordinately. |