unprotestingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unprotesting + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]unprotestingly (comparative more unprotestingly, superlative most unprotestingly)
- Without protest.
- The suspect unprotestingly allowed the police to lead him away.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 168:
- The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.