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† 1. Unfairly, unjustly. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Gen. xvi. 5. And Saray seide to Abram, Vneuenlie thow dost aȝens me.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 74. Scho may sey þat Sara seid to Abraam, Þu dost vneuenly aȝens me.
2. In an uneven or unequal manner; not regularly, uniformly, or smoothly.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VIII. xvi. (1495), 143 b. Though it seme somtyme þat he meue vneuenly, swyfter other slower in comparison to other thynges.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. 2242. And þus sche stood in a Iupardye Of Loue and Schame, in maner of a traunce, Vn-euenly hanged in balaunce.
1557. Recorde, Whetst., iij b. Euen nombers vneuenly, are suche nombers as maie bee diuided into 2 equalle partes, which are odde numbers.
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, II. Introd. 60. In this booke are set forth the powers of lines, deuided euenly and vneuenly.
1638. Rawley, trans. Bacon’s Life & Death (1650), 60. The same Abundance unevenly placed, is in like manner hurtfull.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., I. xxxiv. (1713), 77. To harbour such unconceivable Notions, that lie so unevenly in every Man’s Mind but your own.
1704. Dict. Rust., s.v. Waggons, Therefore the lesser the Wheel is, the heavier and more unevenly and jogging they go.
1839. De la Beche, Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc., xi. 318. An opening between the unevenly-fractured surfaces of a fissure.
1879. R. K. Douglas, Confucianism, iv. 95. A chair which … stands unevenly on its feet, is useless is a support.
† 3. Not in equal proportion. Obs.–1
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., XII. 234. Oyldreggis watertemprid euenly … O rold vryne admyxt vneuenly With water partis too.
