adv. [OE. unrihtwíslíce (UN-1 11 + RIGHTEOUSLY adv.). Cf. ON. úréttvísliga (MDa. uretvislige, MSw. orätvislika).] In an unrighteous manner; unjustly, wrongfully.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., liv. 425. Ic cwæð to ðæm unryhtwisum, ne do ʓe unryhtwislice.
a. 1200. in Kemble, Cod. Dipl., IV. 24. Butan he toforan ðam deaðe … ʓebete ðæt he unrihtwislice forʓette.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 18274. Qui gaf þou rede Þis ilk iesu to crucifi, Wit-vten skil, vn-rightwisli?
1382. Wyclif, Wisdom xii. 13. For not vnriȝtwisly thou demest dom.
c. 1425. Audelay, XI Pains Hell, 333. What chamful end þay haue þat leuyn here vnryȝtwysly.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 29. Remember Richarde … In Englande reigning vnrightwisely a while.
1559. Mirr. Mag., 43. was never prince that other dyd oppresse Unrighteously, but died in distresse.
1611. Beaum. & Fl., Philaster, II. i. Who unrighteously Holds wealth or state from others, shall be curst.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., III. 1077. Their Foes a deadly Shibboleth devise: By which unrighteously it was decreed [etc.].
a. 1768. Secker, Serm. (1770), V. 422. Whether they do not … persecute most unrighteously … both Christian Faith, and natural piety.
1807. Foster, Ess. (1844), I. 21. They have sometimes been most unrighteously accused.
1847. Prescott, Peru, III. vii. I. 428. The distribution of spoil so unrighteously acquired.
