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unrighteously en · ADV

Etymology

From unrighteous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an unrighteous manner.
   • Set a happy and an influential example to your fellow slaveholders, by a righteous treatment of those, whom you unrighteously hold in bondage. 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus:
   • On the other hand, there are persons who have continually disapproved of the principle of compensation for a wrong given up, or the loss of an advantage unrighteously purchased. 1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War:

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