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unprovokingly

unprovokingly adverb: without giving provocation.

Adverb

unprovokingly (comparative more unprovokingly, superlative most unprovokingly)

  1. Without giving provocation.
    • That lady was with her in her last illness, and it was discovered after her death, that the whole of her large fortune was bequeathed to the interesting mother and daughter whose characters she had heard so unprovokingly assailed.1829, Virginia Cary, Christian Parent's Assistant, Or, Tales, for the Moral and Religious Instruction of Youth, page 196

Forms of unprovokingly

comparativemore unprovokingly
superlativemost unprovokingly

Origin of unprovokingly

From unprovoking + -ly.

Questions about unprovokingly

What does unprovokingly mean?
Unprovokingly means without giving provocation.
What part of speech is unprovokingly?
Unprovokingly is an adverb.

Words near unprovokingly in the dictionary

  1. unprovoked
  2. unprovokedly
  3. unprovokedness
  4. unprovokes
  5. unprovoking
  6. unprovokingly
  7. unproxied
  8. unproximate
  9. unprudence
  10. unprudent
  11. unprudential

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