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单词 unequally
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unequallyadv.

Etymology: un- prefix1 5: compare unequal adj. and adv.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈequally.
1. In an unequal manner; not equally or evenly.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > inequality > [adverb]
unlike?c1335
unevenly1398
unegally?1541
unegual1542
unequally1548
unmeet?c1600
unequal1604
inadequatively1862
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Inæqualiter, vnequally.
1565 A. Golding tr. Cæsar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia vii. f. 208v The Romanes were vnequallye matched, both in place and number.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. vi. 14 Be ye not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 417 All this Region is divided, though somewhat unequally, between wild Beasts, and these Savage men.
1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones 149 The square bone is unequally concave... Its..Edge is unequally ragged.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. i. 19 That great peninsula [Spain], at present so unequally divided between two sovereigns.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iv. 40 Rule for finding the principal focus..for a glass unequally convex.
1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. iv. 284 The rocks..are worn down unequally.
2. Unfairly, unjustly. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [adverb]
unevenc1000
unrightOE
unrightlyOE
wronga1250
falsely1303
wrongouslyc1325
unskilfully1338
unskilwiselya1340
wrongly1340
unrightfullyc1350
wrongfullyc1374
unevenly1382
unjustlyc1384
unduly1399
slanderously1429
injustly1502
undeservedly1549
slanderfully1550
unequallya1599
unequitably1649
unfairly1713
iniquitably1742
inequitably1857
society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adverb] > unfairly
unevenc1000
unevenly1382
unequallya1599
unequitably1649
unfairly1713
iniquitably1742
unsportsmanlike1754
unsportsmanly1776
below the belt1844
inequitably1857
a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. xiv, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii Damning all Wrong..Which any of thy creatures doe to other (Oppressing them with power, vnequally).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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