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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unwarrantably, adv. [17th c. Eng. unwarrantably (1634).] Without authority, unjustifiably. — 1668 McPherson Prim. Beliefs 30.
[Several offenders appeared before the Presbytery of Alford for] unwarrantably curing cattle by raising of needfyr 1682 Irvine Nomenclatura Ded. *vj.
You … when they threw away their own lives unwarrantably, bemoaned their madness 1688 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 314.
Takeing the advantage of the said compleaner … when his said unckle dyed … did … most unwarrantably and predomously … posess himselfe in the saids lands
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