adv. [UN-1 11.]
1. In an unexceptionable manner; beyond criticism or objection.
1662. H. More, Antidote agst. Atheism, vi. 58. Wee’l betake our selves to … what is more unexceptionably stringent and forcing.
1718. Free-thinker, No. 141 (1733), III. 178. It is very rare to find a Glass, that does Justice unexceptionably to Objects, in every nice Circumstance.
1740. Richardson, Pamela, II. 328. It will not be an easy Task to behave unexceptionably to him.
1827. Southey, Hist. Penins. War, II. 626. The Junta of Cadiz had obtained their power unexceptionably.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, xvii. Let all people who hold unexceptionable opinions act unexceptionably.
2. = UNEXCEPTIONALLY adv.
1719. J. T. Phillips, trans. Thirty-four Confer., 89. All your Religious Women who assist at the Performances of Pagod Ceremonies, are unexceptionably great Whores.
1799. Monthly Rev., XXX. 507. Such is not unexceptionably the character of all treatises; such ill consequences do not obtain universally.
1806. Bloomfield, Wild Flowers, 106. It has generally and almost unexceptionably appeared a subject of little promise.
