adv. Obs. [OE. unwærlíce (UN-1 11), = ON. úvarliga (MSw. ovarlika, -ligha, MDa. uvarlige).]
1. Incautiously; without taking heed.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., IV. x. § 9. Him com onʓen Hanno se cyning unwærlice, & þær ofslaʓen wearð.
971. Blickl. Hom., 57. Swa we þonne þa gastlican lare unwærlice ne sceolan anforlætan.
c. 1100. O. E. Chron. (MS. D), an. 1068. Æfter þisum coman Haroldes sunas … into Taw-muðan, & þær unwærlice up-eodon.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 8894. Bot vnwarli sco sett hir don Apon þis ilk tre wit chance.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XII. xiii. (Bodl. MS.). Vnwarliche he falleþ into a candel oþur into fuyre and … brenneþ hym selfe.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 8. Discouer neuer the leche vnwarly the counsellez of his pacientez.
c. 1480. Henryson, Fables, Cock & Fox, 81 (Bann. MS.). Wnwarlye winkand, [the cock] walkit vp and doun, And syne to chant and craw he maid him boun.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 428. The soldiours of the garrison chaunced than to be some what vnwarely without the gates.
1592. Lyly, Gallathea, I. iii. 20. I shall … vnwarelie blabbe out something by blushing at euery thing.
2. Without warning; unexpectedly.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 191. A wiche wise he hem wile bisette þanne þe hem unwarliche his dintes giueð.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. met. i. (1868), 4. For elde is comen vnwarly vpon me.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 252. So mai we knowe bothe tuo Unwarli what oure wyves do.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. 2232. But vp-on hym, vnwarly, or he wende, Cam myȝty Troylus.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 22. Unwarly, er he wyst what it ment Wyth thy wycchecraft hys lyf was shent.
1514. Pace, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. I. 176. Thys post departide so hastyly and so unwarly that [etc.].
a. 1542. Wyatt, in Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 65. Vnwarely so was neuer no man caught … as I of late.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. iii. 8. Yet one [stroke] … Through Cambels shoulder … vnwarely went.
