abandonedly

English

Etymology

From abandoned +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩.əd.li/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩.əd.li/

Adverb

abandonedly (comparative more abandonedly, superlative most abandonedly)

  1. With abandon, without restraint.
    Synonym: unrestrainedly
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 28”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.
    • 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!‎[1], Part 4, Chapter 1:
      In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly.
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