unwontedly
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
unwontedly (comparative more unwontedly, superlative most unwontedly)
- Unusually.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 6,[1]
- “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, p. 40,[2]
- Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
- The name, because one afternoon
- Of heat the express-train drew up there
- Unwontedly. It was late June.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 6,[1]