About The Word Undue
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Undue
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What's The Definition Of Undue?
[adj] not yet payable; "an undue loan"
[adj] not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the circumstances; "undue influence"; "I didn't want to show undue excitement"; "accused of using undue force" [adj] beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [adj] lacking justification or authorization; "unreasonable searches and seizures"; "desire for undue private profit"; "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom" Synonyms | Synonyms for Undue: excessive | immoderate | inordinate | not due | unjustified | unreasonable | unwarranted Related Terms | Find terms related to Undue: See Also | Undue In Webster's Dictionary \Un*due"\, a.
1. Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
2. Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue
proceeding. --Bacon.
3. Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty;
disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an
undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution
of law.
{Undue influence} (Law), any improper or wrongful constraint,
machination, or urgency of persuasion, by which one's will
is overcome and he is induced to do or forbear an act
which he would not do, or would do, if left to act freely.
--Abbott.
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