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John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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unnecessarily

Part of SpeechadverbUsed In Literature ↓

In an unnecessary way; not by necessity.

In a Sentence

He unnecessarily repeated much of what others had covered.

Origin

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for unnecessarily

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

instincts, and impulses in all their gamut, the commentator on his own

age; he was weak as the artist, often unnecessarily and by choice, in

the repulsive form,--in the awkward, the obscure, the ugly. He belongs

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