unwarrantablyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈwɒrəntəbli/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈwɒrn̩təbli/, U.S. /ˌənˈwɔrən(t)əbli/ (un- prefix1 5.)
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adverb] > in unwarranted or unjustifiable manner
wrongouslya1300
sacklesslya1400
violently1443
unwarrantably1634
unjustifiably1651
uninvitedly1669
indefensibly1776
unfoundedly1820
1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation i. 70 They found it..unwarrantably to be used for the edifying of the body of Christ.
1682 C. Irvine Hist. Sc. Nomencl. Ded. *vj You,..when they threw away their own Lives unwarrantably, bemoaned their madness.
1734 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 561 Unwarrantably confined in a loathsome Goal.
1808 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 527 You have been, perhaps rather unwarrantably, severe on my morals.
1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 137 Humility..has of late been unwarrantably used to signify that painful consciousness of inferiority which is the first stage of envy.
1890 Spectator 30 Aug. 262/1 His name is unwarrantably dragged into a controversy with which he has nothing to do.
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