different between unwarrantably vs unwarranted

English

Etymology

unwarrantable +? -ly

Adverb

unwarrantably (comparative more unwarrantably, superlative most unwarrantably)

1. In an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.
   • 1662, Richard Baxter, A Saint or a Brute, London: Francis Tyton & Nevil Simmons, Chapter 4, p. ,^[1]

     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 […]

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 104,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     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.

Related terms

• unwarrantability
• unwarrantableness
• unwarranted
• unwarrantedly

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “unwarrantably”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• unwarrantably in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From un- +? warranted.

Adjective

unwarranted (comparative more unwarranted, superlative most unwarranted)

1. Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
2. Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• warrantless

References

• unwarranted in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• unwarranted in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.