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unwarrantably

unwarrantably adverb: in an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.

Adverb

unwarrantably (comparative more unwarrantably, superlative most unwarrantably)

  1. In an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.
    • 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 […]1662, Richard Baxter, A Saint or a Brute, London: Francis Tyton & Nevil Simmons, Chapter 4, p.
    • Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea—such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 104”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of unwarrantably

comparativemore unwarrantably
superlativemost unwarrantably

Origin of unwarrantably

From unwarrantable + -ly.

Questions about unwarrantably

What does unwarrantably mean?
Unwarrantably means in an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.
What part of speech is unwarrantably?
Unwarrantably is an adverb.

Words near unwarrantably in the dictionary

  1. unwarping
  2. unwarps
  3. unwarrantability
  4. unwarrantable
  5. unwarrantableness
  6. unwarrantably
  7. unwarranted
  8. unwarrantedly
  9. unwarrantedness
  10. unwarrantied
  11. unwarring

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