1647. Digges, Unlawf. Taking Arms, IV. 99. Not all, but in an unequitable proportion.
1662. J. Bargrave, Pope Alex. VII. (1867), 82. For very fear of falling into the legate’s displeasure, who they knew was averse to such unequitable designs.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Fil., II. App. 169. It is almost as unjust and unequitable … asit would be to act … against any such authority.
1759. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, II. xvii. A cunning contexture of dark arts and unequitable subterfuges.
1844. Thirlwall, Greece, VIII. lxi. 101. This would seem perhaps not unequitable.
Hence Unequitably adv.
1649. [F. Rous], Bounds Publ. Obed., 61. They being unequitably deriv’d upon us.
1750. Secker, Eight Charges (1771), 126. Any Part of it, which is illegally or unequitably seized.
