ignorantly

English

Alternative forms

• ignorauntly (obsolete)

Etymology

From ignorant +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

ignorantly (comparative more ignorantly, superlative most ignorantly)

1. In an ignorant manner.
   • 1744, Alexander Shiels [i.e., Alexander Shields], “Period VI. Containing the Testimony through the Continued Tract of the Present Deformation, from the Year 1660 to this Day.”, in A Hind Let Loose: Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland, for the Interest of Christ; with the True State thereof in All Its Periods: [...], Edinburgh: Reprinted by R. Drummond and Company, and sold by William Gray bookbinder in the Grassmarket, and several others, &c., →OCLC, pages 167–168:

     Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted [James II of England], to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was. For herein that Monſter of Prerogative is […] advanced […] to claim abſolute obedience, without reſerve of Conſcience, Religion, Honour, or Reaſon; not only that which ignorantly is called Paſſive, never to reſiſt him, not only on any Pretence, but for any Cauſe, even tho' he ſhould command his Popiſh Janizaries to murder and maſſacre all Proteſtants, which is the tender mercy and burning fervent charity of Papiſts; […]

   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:

     vilenesses they commit in their wine (meaning when they know not what they do) for the deeds themselves so ignorantly committed they find pardon amongst wise judges, but for their temulency a condemnation

   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, page 77:

     The conjectured past of Isabel took mysterious hold of his father; therefore, the idea of his father tyrannized over his imagination; and the possible future of Isabel, as so essentially though indirectly compromisable by whatever course of conduct his mother might hereafter ignorantly pursue with regard to himself, as henceforth, through Isabel, forever altered to her; these considerations brought his mother with blazing prominence before him.

   • 2020, Family Guardian Fellowship, The Great IRS Hoax: Why We Don't Owe Income Tax, page 4-27:

     This “victim” of the public fool [I mean school] system is legally and socially illiterate and makes a good “sheep” who is easy for the District Attorney (D.A.) to boss around and who will ignorantly misenforce the tax code so that he will maximize the government's take from the institutionalized plunder and theft called the income tax.

2. Accidentally.

Translations

in an ignorant manner

• Turkish: cahilce (tr), cahilane (tr), bilgisizce