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English
Etymology
From unwonted + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
unwontedly (comparative more unwontedly, superlative most unwontedly)
- Unusually.
1820, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in Ivanhoe:“Knowest thou,” said the Jester, “my good friend Gurth, that thou art strangely courteous and most unwontedly pious on this summer morning? […] ”
1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
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