Meanings
adverbunprovenly (not comparable)
- not comparableWithout proof.
I am satisfied that there are many convicts in this prison unprovenly or unjustly confined, and that should have relief.
1881, Texas. Superintendent of State Penitentiaries, Report, page 1551 more example
Unlike Judson, who started life as a violinist and claimed (unprovenly) to have played the American premiere of Richard Strauss's sonata, Wilford never studied music and could, by some accounts, not read a simple piano score.
1991, Norman Lebrecht, The maestro myth: great conductors in pursuit of power, page 308
Origin
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