detachedlyadv.
In a detached manner; disconnectedly; apart from others of the same kind, or from context, etc.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adverb]
sunderlyeOE
sundryOE
asundera1325
discretelyc1475
sundrily1487
severally1541
sunderwisea1550
separately1552
sejunctly1586
disjunctively1590
sejunctively1602
severedly1605
abstractivelya1651
incommunicately1664
detachedly1797
1797 E. M. Lomax Philanthrope 252 The tree, the rock, or the meadow, considered detachedly from one another.
1824 E. Brydges Lett. on Byron Some of the sentiments [in ‘Cain’], taken detachedly..are..dangerous.
1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 122 We are at liberty..to consider them detachedly.
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