Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unpremeditated manner; without premeditation; undesignedly.
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- adverb In a
unpremeditated manner; without prior planning.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A feeling of contempt and liking combine very naturally in the mind of one to whom another has just spoken unpremeditatedly, revealing rather more of his private feelings than he intended to reveal.
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Men are less blamed for such actions as they perform hastily and unpremeditatedly than for such as proceed from deliberation.
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Boyer and I began to sing unpremeditatedly as one.
A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978
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In John, Jesus went in haste, unpremeditatedly, in secret, and unaccompanied, and confronted the people with himself unexpectedly during the feast.
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rush Rhees
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She takes them nearly as unpremeditatedly as a magpie steals glittering things, and hides them as instinctively.
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The only explanation he could offer to himself was that she must have gone out unpremeditatedly to obtain some fresh medicine at a little chemist shop near by.
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A feeling of contempt and liking combine very naturally in the mind of one to whom another has just spoken unpremeditatedly, revealing rather more of his private feelings than he intended to reveal.
Night and Day 1920
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Men are less blamed for such actions as they perform hastily and unpremeditatedly than for such as proceed from deliberation.
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When she put on her night-dress, she knelt down unpremeditatedly upon the floor, held her hands together, and looked up to the ceiling, watching a fly that was braving the cold of winter, as it crept in a sluggish, hibernated way across the white plaster.
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This was said so simply and unpremeditatedly, that I was absolutely certain it was not Hall whom Louis had seen there.
The Gold Bag Carolyn Wells 1902
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