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barrenly, adv.|ˈbærənlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a barren manner; without offspring, produce, or result; meagrely, scantily.
1552Huloet, Barrenlye, steriliter. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 50 Though your pasture looke barreinly. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xi, Let those whom nature hath not made for store..barrenly perish. 1625Ussher Answ. Jesuit 472 Yet haue they onely barrenly adorned this temporall life. 1877Blackie Wise Men 36 Barrenly increase Mere itch of knowledge. |