adv. (UN-1 11; cf. prec.)
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, I. x. 11. We speke muche of suche þinges as we loue or desire…. But allas! ofte tymes veinly & unfruytfully.
1529. Supplic. Hen. VIII. (1871), 42. To lyue both wickedly towardes God, and also vnfrutefully towardes the worlde.
1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, M j b. Senior Mondaldo which neuer mispent time vnfruitfully.
1654–66. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 568. Civilities were not unfruitfully placed.
1833. S. Hoole, Discourses, xiii. 171. We shall … praise him—not tremblingly and unfruitfully,… but joyfully and profitably.
