† undiscreetlyadv.
= indiscreetly adv. (Common c1450–1650.)
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adverb] > imprudently
amissc1275
unadvisedlyc1340
unadviselyc1380
undiscreetlyc1380
unadvised1390
unredilya1398
unprudentlyc1425
indiscreetlyc1450
unvisedly1488
unprovisedlya1500
imprudently?1541
misadvisedly1548
unforeseeingly1611
inadvisably1844
ill-advisedly1879
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 362 For ȝif þei cursen undiscretly,..þanne þei cursen hemsilf first.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 262 Whanne þou behotyst myche thyng vndyscretly, and doost noȝt þi behest.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) vii. sig. Biij/1 Suche men vnresonably & vndyscretly encline soo to the rest & commodyte of the body.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 63 Put to the heed vndiscretely, it hurteth both the heed and the eies.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 201 Dionyse the Charterhouse Monke, whom he matcheth vndiscretely with Cyrill.
1618 P. Holderus tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuel's Apol. sig. Gijv Seeing both the words and meaning thereof are much different from that which they vndiscreetely coyne.
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 75 'Tis very necessary for them to forbear much drinking undiscreetly.
1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 680/2 Heated with strong Liquor, [he] reply'd undiscreetly.
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