单词 | unrightly |
释义 | † unrightlyadj. Obsolete. Unrighteous, unjust; wicked, wrong, erroneous. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective] unrightlyeOE leasea900 falsec1175 untruec1370 untruefulc1380 erroneousc1400 fallacec1400 wrongc1420 unsubstantialc1455 wrongfulc1470 unrighteous1507 improper1531 perverse1531 mistaken1540 square1549 truthless1568 uncorrect1568 misconceiveda1612 errorous1633 swervinga1638 tralatitious1645 out of the way1676 wrongous1768 aberrated1834 aberrational1837 unsubstantiated1837 unevidenced1842 non-realistic1882 unsubstantiate1890 screwed-up1942 disauthentic1960 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xi. 73 He..næfre ne mæg ðurhteon ðæt unryhtlice weorc. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xx. 192 Ða wiðerwinnan cwædon þæt hit unrihtlic wære, þæt se man ðe yfel geðafode sceolde buton wite to reste faran. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 177 Þonne sceole we nu forlæten unrihtlicæ dædæ & lichamlice lustæs. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 161 Verite caste doune, whan any vnryghtly thynge is preferrid to trouthe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021). unrightlyadv. Not rightfully; unfairly, wrongly. Also: incorrectly. In early use also: †unrighteously, wickedly (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [adverb] unevenc1000 unrightOE unrightlyOE wronga1250 falsely1303 wrongouslyc1325 unskilfully1338 unskilwiselya1340 wrongly1340 unrightfullyc1350 wrongfullyc1374 unevenly1382 unjustlyc1384 unduly1399 slanderously1429 injustly1502 undeservedly1549 slanderfully1550 unequallya1599 unequitably1649 unfairly1713 iniquitably1742 inequitably1857 society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adverb] unrightOE unrightlyOE wronga1250 mislichec1275 falsely1303 wrongouslyc1325 unskilfully1338 unskilwiselya1340 wrongly1340 unrightfullyc1350 wrongfullyc1374 unjustlyc1384 injustly1502 OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 18 May (2013) 106 Fram þæm mannum..þa he ær unrihtlice ofsloh on ðyssum life. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxvii. 245 We syngodon, we dydon unrihtlice, syle us forgifennysse. OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) lxiii. 113 Se abbod ne geunstille, ne ne gedrefe þa heorde, þe him underþeod is, ne he nan þing ne misfadige, ne unrihtlice ne geendebyrde, swylce he freolice don mote þæt, þæt him licige. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 65 He is deofles sunu, ðe þe deofles weorc wyrcð, and unrihtwisnesse sunu, ðe þe unrihtlice leofæð. c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 26 Som man sleeȝ wyth hande, as Kaym slew Abel. Also som men sleynge vnrightly, and thei that fleen [read sleen] any body wyth venyme or poyson. a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 128 To setten yn har londes, Thay that wyth streynth & vnryghtly weren out I-dryue. 1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr I. Oldecastell 55 b Not all vnryghtlye ded saynct Augustyn speake yt. 1578 M. Jennings tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande i. f. 29v Thereby to burden you with the fault, wherein not vnrightly you are culpable. 1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick iii. xi. 318 The necke of the stomack is..now adayes called by all learned men Oesophagus, and vnrightly Stomachus. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 108 If any inferiour Officers..unrightly governe the people, they may lawfully be resisted by them. 1702 C. Place Serm. Dorchester 14 Those..that grow weary of this Days Observation..seem very unrightly to apprehend the Nature of the Guilt 'tis designed to expiate. 1840 Sporting Mag. Oct. 427 There was a garret room..which we..had christened the armory: nor was it unrightly named. 1845 C. Darwin Let. 10 Feb. in Corr. (1987) III. 140 One cannot help feeling, though unrightly, that such an end is humiliating. 1878 R. Simpson tr. Prodigal Son iv, in R. Simpson School of Shakspere II. 110 We are such honest folk that we covet nothing unrightly. 1940 C. Beals Pan Amer. iv. 59 What we consider as aggression, the Axis Powers, rightly or unrightly, interpret as liberation. 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 5 Jan. a1 ‘I believe this is our church, unrightly taken from us,’ she said. ‘I plan to stay here.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.eOEadv.OE |
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