adv. [UN-1 11: cf. prec.] Without design or intention; unintentionally.
1687. Boyle, Martyrd. Theodora, xi. 120. Having been, though undesignedly, so … accessory to the early loss of a life.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 679. It is better they should do good undesignedly … than not to do it at all.
1829. I. Taylor, Enthus., X. 299. Insensibly and undesignedly and from the operation of various causes.
1884. Law Times, 20 Sept., 345. It is this aspect … on which ‘W. B.’ seems, perhaps not altogether undesignedly, to have thrown most light.
