unwarily

English

Etymology

From unwary +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unwarily (comparative more unwarily, superlative most unwarily)

In an unwary manner.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, verso:
  One day as I vnvvarily did gaze / on thoſe fayre eyes my loues immortall light: / the vvhiles my ſtoniſht hart ſtood in amaze, / through ſvveet illuſion of her lookes delight.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
  For in a night the best part of my power, / As I upon advantage did remove, / Were in the Washes all unwarily / Devoured by the unexpected flood.
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:
  Not that licence and levity and unconsented breach of faith should herein be countnanc’t, but that some conscionable, and tender pitty might be had of those who have unwarily in a thing they never practiz’d before, made themselves the bondmen of a luckles and helples matrimony.
- 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC:
  Th’ Ambitious Youth, too Covetous of Fame, / Too full of Angels Metal in his Frame, / Unwarily was led from Vertues ways, / Made Drunk with Honour, and debauch’d with Praise.
- 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
  […] the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, […] in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte […]