adv. Obs. [UN-1 11; cf. prec.] Disproportionately.
1558–9. Abp. Parker, Corr. (Parker Soc.), 62. And now for the upholding of two or three years more of life, to heap unproportionably, I count it madness.
1594. R. Ashley, trans. Loys le Roy, 2. Being duely tempered for generation, and vnproportionably distempered for corruption.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 360. A Chameleon is a Creature about the Bignesse of an Ordinary Lizard: His Head vnproportionably bigge.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., III. 166. The Gospell too bids us ‘not bee unequally yoaked,’ but what is it to be unproportionably yoaked, if this bee not?
1790. Phil. Trans., LXXX. 355. Though nature … may permit a particular species of animal to become so unproportionably numerous.
1819. W. S. Rose, Lett. fr. N. Italy, II. 172. There is, perhaps, no offence which is so unproportionably punished.
