Meanings
comparative more unwontedly · superlative most unwontedly
- Unusually.
Yes. I remember Adlestrop— The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 401 more example
“Knowest thou,” said the Jester, “my good friend Gurth, that thou art strangely courteous and most unwontedly pious on this summer morning? […]”
1820, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in Ivanhoe
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