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Webster 1828 Edition


Undesignedly

UNDESIGNEDLY

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adv.
Without design or intention.

Definition 2024


undesignedly

undesignedly

English

Adverb

undesignedly (not comparable)

  1. In a way that was not designed; as an unexpected consequence.
    • 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:
      But we cannot close our remarks upon the apprenticeship system without noticing one good end which it has undesignedly accomplished, i.e., the illustration of the good disposition of the colored people.
    • 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII:
      Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more completely, though undesignedly, colored by their personal feelings.