unneedfuladj.

1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 36 We haue be comaunded oft tyme vp owre ligeaunce to vnnedeful & vnleueful dyuerse doynges.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 58 So shal cloþis be more unnedeful þan þei weren in staat of innocence.

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 227 Her eyne..were neuer lyfte vp to beholde eny vnnedeful thinge.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 2 Which vnneedfull Southerly course..occasioned them..much sicknesse.

1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull I. iii. 29 Mere negative qualifications totally unneedful in the education of a polite gentleman.

1872 Nature 4 Apr. 450/2 Science..is not in that district so well provided for as to render the establishment of such a school unneedful.

1976 Pacific Hist. Rev. 45 375 It is unneedful to point out that the ‘month of labor’ ran counter to the spontaneity Scott later sought in poetry.

2007 B. Campbell War of Knives xviii. 265 That was a hell of an order... It was also unneedful.

1565 J. Hall Anat. 3rd Treat. 31 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. The rest..being ouer curious, & thought as vnnedefull of such plain deuisions.

1701 Philos. Trans. 1700–1 (Royal Soc.) 22 990 Captive Britons chopp'd and cut down most of the Trees,..leaving only here and there some great ones untouched..and unneedful of their labour.

1749 Let. To Author of Exam. Princ. 43 Those who are in a State of Neutrality, or Independency, and totally unneedful of such Supplies.

1815 C. Richardson Illustr. Eng. Philol. 66 Wholly unneedful of explanation.

1863 Mrs. H. Wood Foggy Night Offord v. 51 The heart has a language of its own, unneedful of common words.

1939 Virginia Law Rev. 25 688 Quakers.., in no danger of persecution and unneedful of relief, persisted in tearing at the foundation of English society.

2008 Spectator (Nexis) 28 June 53 Man is..unneedful of the analgesic mercies that art of the old sort delivered into the veins of suffering humanity.

1603 A. Top Oliue Leafe sig. C4^v Some Alphabets by ruder collection, haue been vnneedfully extended to thirtie or fourtie.

1755 J. Hill Thoughts conc. God & Nature i. vii. 15 To multiply miracles unneedfully.

1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow v. ii. 273 Is your grace not weary of exposing his dear life unneedfully?

2012 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 2 June 11 He felt misunderstood and slighted.., causing him to create a home environment that was unneedfully paranoid and hateful.