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unˈequally, adv. [un-1 11: cf. unequal a.] 1. In an unequal manner; not equally or evenly.
1548Elyot, Inæqualiter, vnequally. 1563Golding Cæsar vii. (1565) 208 b, The Romanes were vnequallye matched, both in place and number. 1611Bible 2 Cor. vi. 14 Be ye not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 417 All this Region is divided, though somewhat unequally, between wild Beasts, and these Savage men. 1726Monro Anat. Bones 149 The square bone is unequally concave... Its..Edge is unequally ragged. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. i. (1782) I. 23 That great peninsula [Spain], at present so unequally divided between two sovereigns. 1831Brewster Optics iv. 40 Rule for finding the principal focus..for a glass unequally convex. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. iv. 284 The rocks..are worn down unequally. †2. Unfairly, unjustly. Obs.
1596Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 14 Damning all Wrong..Which any of thy creatures doe to other (Oppressing them with power, vnequally). |