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undeliberately en · ADV

Meanings

  1. In an undeliberate manner.
    • Therefore either in Miſery’s, or Deſpair’s manſion, the road of Pleaſure, through which you have undeliberately travelled, is terminated. 1771 August 1, Philos, The London Magazine: Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XL, page 396:
    • Neither ſtratagem nor ſurprize will be able totally to defeat it; it goes on fix’d and ſteady principles, does nothing undeliberately, and without attentively conſidering whether ſuch a thing be conſiſtent with its main purpoſes, and therefore is in a good poſture of defence againſt the ſpiritual enemy. 1754, William Davies, Sermons on Religious and Moral Subjects, Calculated for the Use of Families; Particularly a Sermon on the Fifth Commandment; Two Sermons on Religious Education; and Several Others at the Request of Many of the Subscribers, Bristol: […] the Author, page 240:
    • You are creating either deliberately or undeliberately—that is our free will. 2014 June 6, “Janie Morado to present Sunday’s lesson at Unity of the Valley”, in The Monitor, volume 105, number 314, page 5D:
    • Leichtsinnig handeln leichtsinniger weiſe, oder unbedachtsam, verfahren, to proceed raſhly, lightly, temerariously, unadviſedly, unconſiderately, unpremeditately, undeliberately, unwiſely, ſottiſhly, fooliſhly. 1745, Teutsch⸗Englisches Lexicon, Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, column 1143:

Forms

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most undeliberately Degree=Sup lexicographic
more undeliberately Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

indeliberately · non-deliberately