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ˈrovingly, adv.
[f. roving ppl. a.]
†1. Without fixed mark or definite aim. Obs.
1601Deacon & Walker Answ. Darel 189 Are you not ashamed thus rouingly to raunge with your penne? a1691Boyle Wks. (1772) V. 522 What, by reason,..he can either not at all, or but rovingly, guess at.
2. In a wandering fashion; towards roaming.
1701C. Wolley Jrnl. N. York (1860) 45 As to their way of living, it's very rudely and rovingly, shifting from place to place, according to their exigencies. 1849Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 706 We can assure all who are rovingly inclined. |