unprovenly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]unprovenly (not comparable)
- Without proof.
- 1881, Texas. Superintendent of State Penitentiaries, Report, page 155:
- I am satisfied that there are many convicts in this prison unprovenly or unjustly confined, and that should have relief.
- 1991, Norman Lebrecht, The maestro myth: great conductors in pursuit of power, page 308:
- Unlike Judson, who started life as a violinist and claimed (unprovenly) to have played the American premiere of Richard Strauss's sonata, Wilford never studied music and could, by some accounts, not read a simple piano score.