unprovokingly

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English

Etymology

From unprovoking +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unprovokingly (comparative more unprovokingly, superlative most unprovokingly)

  1. Without giving provocation.
    • 1829, Virginia Cary, Christian Parent's Assistant, Or, Tales, for the Moral and Religious Instruction of Youth, page 196:
      That lady was with her in her last illness, and it was discovered after her death, that the whole of her large fortune was bequeathed to the interesting mother and daughter whose characters she had heard so unprovokingly assailed.