adv. (UN-1 11; cf. prec.)

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1630.  Camden’s Hist. Eliz., II. 117. Two famous Pilots … sought as vnprosperously to discouer a neere way to East-India.

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1650.  Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. § 6. 153. When a Prince fights justly, and yet unprosperously.

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1663.  Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. i. 10. It is possible to be safely made, though many … have but unprosperously attempted it.

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1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, lvii. Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to … a long ignoble bondage.

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1876.  Miss Yonge, Womankind, xxxii. Love affairs come early and unprosperously.

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