undeliberately

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Adverb

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undeliberately (comparative more undeliberately, superlative most undeliberately)

  1. In an undeliberate manner.
    • 1745, Teutsch⸗Englisches Lexicon, Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, column 1143:
      Leichtsinnig handeln leichtsinniger weiſe, oder unbedachtsam, verfahren, to proceed raſhly, lightly, temerariously, unadviſedly, unconſiderately, unpremeditately, undeliberately, unwiſely, ſottiſhly, fooliſhly.
    • 1754, William Davies, Sermons on Religious and Moral Subjects, Calculated for the Use of Families; Particularly a Sermon on the Fifth Commandment; Two Sermons on Religious Education; and Several Others at the Request of Many of the Subscribers, Bristol: [] the Author, page 240:
      Neither ſtratagem nor ſurprize will be able totally to defeat it; it goes on fix’d and ſteady principles, does nothing undeliberately, and without attentively conſidering whether ſuch a thing be conſiſtent with its main purpoſes, and therefore is in a good poſture of defence againſt the ſpiritual enemy.
    • 1771 August 1, Philos, The London Magazine: Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XL, page 396:
      Therefore either in Miſery’s, or Deſpair’s manſion, the road of Pleaſure, through which you have undeliberately travelled, is terminated.
    • 2014 June 6, “Janie Morado to present Sunday’s lesson at Unity of the Valley”, in The Monitor, volume 105, number 314, page 5D:
      You are creating either deliberately or undeliberately—that is our free will.

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