Meaning of unwarrantably | Babel Free

Definitions

In an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.

Examples

“1662, Richard Baxter, A Saint or a Brute, London: Francis Tyton & Nevil Simmons, Chapter 4, p. , 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 […]”

“Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea—such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.”

“1937, H. G. Wells, Star Begotten, Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006, Chapter 8, 5, p. 118, 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.”

“In the following year, however, a contract for the remainder of the line was concluded, and the directors issued a most unwarrantably optimistic report on the prospects of their undertaking.”

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