[UN-1 12.] The quality or state of being ungrounded: a. Of persons.
1628. Bp. Hall, Old Relig., Ded. ¶ 8 b. The cause … was, their vngroundednes in the points of Catechisme.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 28. Away, then, with that excuse, from the folly, errour, and ungroundedness of the artsmen!
b. Of opinions, statements, etc.
1637. Bastwick, Litany, III. 7. Besides the impiety, vanity, and ungroundednes of it, let us looke … into the needlesnesse and unprofitablenes of it.
1688. Steele, Old Age, 284. The folly and ungroundedness of this Imagination, is obvious.
1804. Ann. Rev., II. 296. We mention this … to expose the utter ungroundedness of the writer’s speculation.
