unwarily

unwary +‎ -ly

unwarily (comparative more unwarily, superlative most unwarily)

1. In an unwary manner.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “(please specify the sonnet number or title)”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:

     One day as I unwarily did gaze
     On those fayre eyes, my loves immortall light;
     The whiles my stonisht hart stood in amaze,
     Through sweet illusion of her lookes delight;

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:

     For in a night the best part of my power,
     As I upon advantage did remove,
     Were in the Washes all unwarily
     Devoured by the unexpected flood.

   • 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

     Not that licence and levity and unconsented breach of faith should herein be countnanc’t, but that some conscionable, and tender pitty might be had of those who have unwarily in a thing they never practiz’d before, made themselves the bondmen of a luckles and helples matrimony.

   • 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel‎, lines 309–312:

     Th’ Ambitious Youth, too Covetous of Fame,
     Too full of Angels Metal in his Frame,
     Unwarily was led from Vertues ways,
     Made Drunk with Honour, and debauch’d with Praise.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     […] the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, […] in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte […]