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wrongously, adv. In later use chiefly Sc.|ˈrɒŋəslɪ|
Forms: 4–6 wrangwis-, 4–5 -wys-, 5– wrongously, etc. (see wrongous a.); also 4–7 -lie, 4 -li; 5–6 -le.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a wrongful, unjust, or evil manner; wrongfully, unfairly, inequitably.
In very freq. (esp. Sc.) use from c 1425 to c 1650.
c1325Metr. Hom. 32 It schawed..That I led mi lif wrangwislie. a1340Hampole Psalter ix. 12 [People] wrangwisly slane or harmed. c1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 13 Noghte anely he þat wrangwysely getes, bot he þat wrangwysly haldes. 14..Guy Warw. 6500 (Camb. MS.), Þou doyst vncurteslye For to smyte me wrongeuslye. c1440Alph. Tales 48 To pray for me, at I be nott wrongoslie putt to dead. c1460Towneley Myst. vii. 58 If thou swere wrongwosly,..Thou art worthi grete blame. 1468in Surtees Misc. (1890) 19 Ye tennauntes..have wrangwisly halden & occupies xviij poules feet of ye grounde. 1533Bellenden Livy iv. xx. (S.T.S.) II. 123 For þe said law put þe faderis fra þe public landis quhilkis þai wrangwislie possedit. 1535Coverdale Job xxxiv. 12 God condemneth no man wrongeously. a1615Brieue Cron. Erlis Ross (1850) 17 He was sinistruously and wrongously put out of the Abbay. 1680Alison in Thomson Cloud of Witnesses (1871) 62 They have..assized and sentenced me wrongously. 1756Byng in Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. (1790) II. 81 The injury done to our characters..which..[have] been most injuriously and wrongously attacked. 1833Chalmers Const. Man (1834) I. vi. 242 If one [child]..on returning..shall find the chair in the possession of another occupier..it has the sense of being wrongously dispossessed. 1862Chambers's Encycl. III. 462 Where a free man is wrongously captured or detained. 1894Hall Caine Manxman 340 She..slapped the schoolmaster for bating me wrongously.
2. Without good ground or justification; for no sufficient cause or reason; undeservedly.
a1300Cursor M. 27695 If þou..ever thoro envie Has ani man wreid wrangwisly. c1350Relig. Lyrics 14th C. (1924) 94 My well of my wele sa wrangwysly wryed. a1400Gosp. Nicodemus (G.) 204 Ȝe wrigh [v.r. blame] him wrangwisly. 1483in Acta Dom. Conc. II. Introd. 103 The malis of the landis..excepand xli...quhilk it is allegit..that he is wrangwisly chargit with. 1563Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 53 Paull at that tyme wes..maist wranguslie persuadit, that all that he did wes..pleasand to God. 1574in Maitl. Club Misc. I. 102 David..declarit that..the kirk wes wranguslie and sinesterlye informit of him. 1639Large Declar. Late Tumults Scotl. 377 Wherein..wee are heavily and wrongously blamed and taxed of many great offences. 1828E. Irving Last Days 323 To endure reproof wrongously, for Christ's sake. 1885Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) III. 115 Let these folk go, for they are wrongously accused.
†b. Without due title, claim, or warrant.
14..in Anglia VIII. 164 Hee wrangusly toke to hym þe name of an hirde-man. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 23 Ane othir callit Damas was put in the sege wrangwisly.
†3. Incorrectly; = wrongly adv. 1 b. Obs.
1597Skene De Verb. Sign., Bovata Terræ,..quhilk in sum buikes, is wrangeouslie writtin, Davata terræ. 1732Monro Anat. Bones (ed. 2) 191 A small Cavity..where the Recti interni minores, commonly (tho' wrongously) ascribed to Cowper, take their Rise. 1740in Heslop Northumbld. Wds. (1894) 799 Pay'd by..one of ye late stewards, his fourth part of ye money—wrongously given to Ralph Smith. |