causelessly

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English

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Etymology

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From causeless +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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causelessly (comparative more causelessly, superlative most causelessly)

  1. Without cause; in a causeless manner.
    • 1874, Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Introduction, page 14:
      He sees evil only in the shape of some moral baseness [] , or else in the shape of a dark mystery of pain, to be endured by those on whom it causelessly falls in a proud though undefiant silence.
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