unprovenly

unprovenly

English

Etymology

unproven +‎ -ly

Adverb

unprovenly (not comparable)

1. Without proof.
   • 1881, Texas. Superintendent of State Penitentiaries, Report (page 155)

     I am satisfied that there are many convicts in this prison unprovenly or unjustly confined, and that should have relief.

   • 1991, Norman Lebrecht, The maestro myth: great conductors in pursuit of power (page 308)

     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.