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unfortunately (adv.)
1540s, "in an unfortunate manner, by ill-fortune," from
unfortunate
+
-ly
(2). The original meaning is now rare; the main modern sense of "sad to say, unhappily, unluckily," in parenthetical use, is recorded from 1770s.
