Unwarranted

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

  Also, in recent use (1891–), unwarrantedly adv.

1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades, 416. It doth sharpely rebuke … him, for his unwarranted rashenesse.

1587.  Norton’s Calvin’s Inst., IV. 490, margin. Extreame annointing [is] a forcelesse and vnwarranted ceremonie.

1633.  Hart, Diet of Diseased, Introd. 8. Ignorant and unwarranted Physitians.

1651.  Hobbes, Leviathan, II. xxii. 116. The Assembly cannot Represent any man in things unwarranted by their Letters.

1748.  Melmoth, Fitzosborne Lett., xlix. (1749), II. 36. Every eminent writer, without indulging any unwarranted licences, has a language which he derives from himself.

1817.  Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. IV. v. 216. The Directors … condemned … the rapacious and unwarranted proceedings of their servants.

1862.  Lytton, Str. Story, II. 50. I should be utterly unwarranted in supposing that … they were insane.