unˈrighteously, adv.
[OE. unrihtw{iacu}sl{iacu}ce (un-1 11 + righteously adv.). Cf. ON. {uacu}réttv{iacu}sliga (MDa. uretvislige, MSw. orätvislika).]
In an unrighteous manner; unjustly, wrongfully.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. liv. 425 Ic cwæð to ðæm unryhtwisum, ne do ᵹe unryhtwislice. a 1200 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 24 Butan he toforan ðam deaðe..ᵹebete ðæt he unrihtwislice forᵹette. a 1300 Cursor M. 18274 Qui gaf þou rede Þis ilk iesu to crucifi, Wit-vten skil, vn-rightwisli? 1382 Wyclif Wisdom xii. 13 For not vnriȝtwisly thou demest dom. c 1425 Audelay XI Pains Hell 333 What chamful end þay haue þat leuyn here vnryȝtwysly. 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 29 Remember Richarde..In Englande reigning vnrightwisely a while. 1559 Mirr. Mag. 43 Was never prince that other dyd oppresse Un⁓righteously, but died in distresse. 1611 Beaum. & Fl. Philaster ii. i, Who unrighteously Holds wealth or state from others, shall be curst. 1687 Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1077 Their Foes a deadly Shibboleth devise: By which unrighteously it was decreed [etc.]. a 1768 Secker Serm. (1770) V. 422 Whether they do not..persecute most unrighteously..both Christian Faith, and natural piety. 1807 Foster Ess. (1844) I. 21 They have sometimes been most unrighteously accused. 1847 Prescott Peru iii. vii. I. 428 The distribution of spoil so unrighteously acquired. |