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1634.  Canne, Necess. Separ., 70. They found it … unwarrantably to be used for the edifying of the body of Christ.

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1682.  C. Irvine, Hist. Scott. Nomencl., Ded. *vj. You,… when they threw away their own Lives unwarrantably, bemoaned their madness.

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1734.  Col. Rec. Pennsylv., III. 561. Unwarrantably confined in a loathsome Goal.

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1808.  Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 527. You have been, perhaps rather unwarrantably, severe on my morals.

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1830.  Mackintosh, Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, I. 198. Humility … has of late been unwarrantably used to signify that painful consciousness of inferiority which is the first stage of envy.

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1890.  Spectator, 30 Aug., 262/1. His name is unwarrantably dragged into a controversy with which he has nothing to do.

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