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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English helpful Middle English -ly English -ly English unhelpfully From un- + helpful + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In an unhelpful manner.
    • Evangelical figures and groups who 'converted' to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy, in search of a return to the sources and to some 'Golden Era' of church history – here he specifically mentions Thomas Howard and Peter Gilquist, or those who uncritically and thus unhelpfully appropriated aspects of patristic theology, such as the Emerging Church and paleoorthodoxy. 2016, TF Torrance, The Trinitarian faith: The evangelical theology of the ancient Catholic Church:

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more unhelpfully Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

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