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unwishfully en · ADV

Etymology

From unwishful + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (rare) In an unwishful manner; without wishing.
    • Again we descend, perhaps to the dreary shore of some dead sea of life, where we may wander on unhopefully, nay, even unwishfully. We would lie down and die if we could do so sinlessly; and we wonder that sin should be in the wish. 1902, Mary Linskill, In Exchange for a Soul, page 126:

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more unwishfully Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unwishfully Degree=Sup lexicographic