Definition of "unnecessarily"

There be […] lords that can prateAs amply and unnecessarilyAs this Gonzalo;

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]

Pray let not any-body unnecessarily be acquainted with this shocking affair;

1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison‎, London, Volume 1, Letter 33, p. 235

“Wait a moment,” said he, quite unnecessarily, for she could not have stirred;

1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “A Crisis”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, pages 113-114

[…] they made good laws and kept the peace and saved good trees from being unnecessarily cut down,

1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 17, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe‎, New York: Macmillan

In the days of their [the Roman armies’] grandeur, when no enemy appeared capable of opposing them, their heavy armour was laid aside as unnecessarily burdensome, their laborious exercises were neglected as unnecessarily toilsome.

1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations‎, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 5, Part 1, pp. 307-308

His absence was unnecessarily long.

1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 245

[…] it seemed that she used his name unnecessarily often,

2007, Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader‎, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2008, page 28