unwarily

English edit

Etymology edit

unwary +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

unwarily (comparative more unwarily, superlative most unwarily)

In an unwary manner.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “(please specify the sonnet number or title)”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:
  One day as I unwarily did gaze
  On those fayre eyes, my loves immortall light;
  The whiles my stonisht hart stood in amaze,
  Through sweet illusion of her lookes delight;
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
  For in a night the best part of my power,
  As I upon advantage did remove,
  Were in the Washes all unwarily
  Devoured by the unexpected flood.
- 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
  Not that licence and levity and unconsented breach of faith should herein be countnanc’t, but that some conscionable, and tender pitty might be had of those who have unwarily in a thing they never practiz’d before, made themselves the bondmen of a luckles and helples matrimony.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel‎^[1], lines 309–312:
  Th’ Ambitious Youth, too Covetous of Fame,
  Too full of Angels Metal in his Frame,
  Unwarily was led from Vertues ways,
  Made Drunk with Honour, and debauch’d with Praise.
- 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
  […] the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, […] in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte […]