1648. Hexham, II. Ongegrondet, Vngrounded, or Vnfounded.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 829. I … one for all My sell expose, with lonely steps to tread Th’ unfounded deep.
1785. Burke, Nabob of Arcot, Wks. IV. 282. These debts … [he] at one stroke expunged … as utterly irrecoverable; he might have added, as utterly unfounded.
1828. Lytton, Pelham, I. xxxiv. I advance a claim not altogether new and unfounded.
1855. Orr’s Circ. Sci., Inorg. Nat., 129. Vague speculations and unfounded theories concerning the origin of things.
1883. Law Rep., 11 Q.B.D. 593. The imputation … was altogether unfounded and absurd.
Hence Unfoundedly adv.
1820. Scott, Monast., xxvi. I should wish to know the author … of all these suspicions, so unfoundedly urged against me.
1883. Law Times Rep., XLIX. 251/1. Bringing a civil action, however unfoundedly.
