unwarrantably

== English == === Etymology === From unwarrantable +‎ -ly. === Adverb === unwarrantably (comparative more unwarrantably, superlative most unwarrantably) 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. ,[1] 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 […] 1937, H. G. Wells, Star Begotten, Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006, Chapter 8, 5, p. 118,[2] There is this secondary world which has worked its way into language everywhere, a sort of fold in the membrane that has established itself in a thousand metaphors, got itself most unwarrantably taken for granted by nearly everybody. ==== Related terms ==== unwarrantability unwarrantableness unwarranted unwarrantedly === References === Noah Webster (1828), “unwarrantably”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (J–Z), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “unwarrantably”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.