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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unproviditly, -lie, -providedly, adv. [Providitlie adv.] At unawares, without forewarning. —1567 Edinb. B. Rec. III 235.
How in all apparence he mycht oppres vnprouiditlie [Anderson Collect. Mary I 137, unproviditly] and destroy that innocent infant as he had done his fader Urquhart Jewel 112.
Another young lady … so unprovidedly was surprised
