unexcusingly

comparative more unexcusingly · superlative most unexcusingly

1. rareIn an unexcusing manner; not excusingly.

   She met Mrs. Dacres, of course; had to; and the interview was painful to them both; it couldn’t be anything else; but she went through it unflinchingly and unexcusingly, and wrung a respect out of Alan’s mother in spite of everything.

   1924, Concordia Merrel, chapter XVI, in Miss Pilgrim’s Progress, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 219

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   If I had the precedent, however, of others’ lectures on the subject of Book-keeping, to go by—a tract trodden, a way marked out—I would not preface my discourse with any remarks; being one of those who strenuously hold that every individual who solicits any portion of the public’s time, unexcusingly places himself before that public, uncomplainingly to receive their just sanction or bitter condemnation.

   1853, J[ohn] C[aldwell] Colt, “[Public Addresses.] An Address on Book-keeping by Double Entry, Delivered before a Public Meeting at Boston, Mass.”, in The Science of Double Entry Book-keeping, Simplified, Arranged, and Methodized, after the Forms of Grammar and Arithmetic; […], 45th edition, New York, N.Y.: Lamport, Blakeman & Law, […], →OCLC, page 227

   Taken all in all, the fairy play, both dramatically and musically, is better than good, and the early resumption of “The Children of the King” for the holiday season will be a delight to the children, to the grown-ups who make the taking of the children an excuse for going themselves, and to the rest of us who go openly and unexcusingly for our own enjoyment.

   1897 November 20, Florence Hayward, “‘The Children of the King’”, in Country Life Illustrated. […], volume II, number 46, London: Hudson & Kearns, […] and Geo[rge] Newnes, Ltd., […], →OCLC, page 566, column 2

   The grim, old Russian author [Leo Tolstoy] handles the facilities of man fiercely, positively and unexcusingly. He would teach a lesson by sheer force of unvarnished statement, bereft of palliation of any sort, and he takes the lowest stages of moral turpitude as his subject matter.

   1903 March 8, Robert E[dward] Follin, “Theatre-Building the Rage. New York’s Many New Play Houses […]”, in Charlotte Daily Observer, Charlotte, N.C.: J[oseph] P[earson] Caldwell [and] D[aniel] A[ugustus] Tompkins, →OCLC, page 10, column 3

   In a more authoritative account “Osirius^([sic]) and the Egyptian Resurrection” (1973), a two volume study on the most significant and enduring religious belief in Ancient Egypt, [Ernest Alfred Wallis] Budge unexcusingly says: “Everything that we know of them proves that they possessed all the characteristics of the African race, and especially of that portion of it which lived in that ocean to ocean, right across Africa, and is commonly known as the Sudan, i.e., the country par excellence of the Blacks.”

   1978 October 24, Tony Crayton, “Egyptologist Ignores African Achievements”, in Nummo News, Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts, →OCLC, page 8, columns 4–5