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Unnecessarlye, -nesesarly, -nesarly, adv. [Unnecessar(e adj. Cf. e.m.E. vnnecessarily (1594).] Unnecessarily; without good cause. — 1661 Cramond Kirk S. I 24 Feb.
Being informed that severall of the people withdraws unnecessarlye from the efternoons preaching 1670 Elgin Rec. II 309.
The clerk of the sessione neidit not to fill up the severall texts of bischope or ministers in respect it fills upe the buik unnessarly 1673 Bonckle Kirk S. 43.
[On] the Sabath day when his atendance wes most nesessary, [he] was yet most unnesesarly absent from his duetie, albeit he was at home