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unwarrantably

adverb

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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English unwarrantable Middle English -ly English -ly English unwarrantably From unwarrantable + -ly.

  1. In an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.

    1662, Richard Baxter, A Saint or a Brute, London: Francis Tyton & Nevil Simmons, Chapter 4, p. , Holiness maketh men meek and patient, and teacheth subjects not to make too great a matter of any injury that is done them; nor to censure unwarrantably the actions of their superiours […]

    Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea—such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.