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English Dictionary: undue by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
undue
adj
  1. not yet payable; "an undue loan"
    Antonym(s): due
  2. 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"
    Antonym(s): due
  3. lacking justification or authorization; "desire for undue private profit"; "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom"
    Synonym(s): undue, unjustified, unwarranted
  4. beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"
    Synonym(s): excessive, inordinate, undue, unreasonable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Undue \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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