causelessly

English

Etymology

causeless +‎ -ly

Adverb

causelessly (comparative more causelessly, superlative most causelessly)

  1. Without cause; in a causeless manner.
    • 1874, Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Introduction, page 14:
      He sees evil only in the shape of some moral baseness […] , or else in the shape of a dark mystery of pain, to be endured by those on whom it causelessly falls in a proud though undefiant silence.

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