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groundlessly

adv

Etymology

From groundless + -ly.

  1. inherited from *grundulausaz✻
  2. inherited from grundlēas
  3. inherited from groundles — “bottomless”
  4. suffixed as groundlessly — “groundless + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a groundless manner

    In a groundless manner; without justification.

    • Shame, disappointment, and discomfiture gnawed at his heart; a constant apprehension of being overtaken, or met—for he was groundlessly afraid even of travellers, who came towards him by the way he was going—oppressed him heavily.

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