单词 | abandonedly |
释义 | abandonedlyadv. In an abandoned manner; spec. (a) without moral or sexual constraint, profligately; (b) without bounds or restriction, freely. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [adverb] unthriftilyc1386 unvirtuouslya1500 dissolutely1549 deperditely1608 desolately1608 perditlya1632 profligately1676 abandonedly1723 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adverb] unthriftilyc1386 riotously?1529 dissolutely1549 wildly1561 desolately1608 abandonedly1723 profligately1741 riotly1786 1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 65 The more he wallows in Lust and strains every faculty to be abandondly voluptuous. 1788 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1822) XIII. 301 If there had been one more desperately and abandonedly corrupt..to be found in India. 1852 H. Melville Pierre vi. vi. 172 Pierre now heard the tones above deftly stealing and winding among the myriad serpentinings of the other melody..but in themselves wonderfully and abandonedly free and bold. 1892 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 101 The term ‘profligate’ appears to me to suggest a character more markedly, more extensively, more abandonedly criminal than the hero of Mr. Pinero's play. 1921 A. Stringer Twin Tales xii. 156 ‘I can't help kissing you!’ he abandonedly exclaimed as he just as abandonedly proceeded to do so. 1962 L. A. Fiedler Pull down Vanity & Other Stories 232 She was crying abandonedly once more, snorting and heaving and dripping tears. 1983 G. Millar in Listener 3 Nov. 39/1 Gance determined to let the camera become the audience, and to involve it more abandonedly in the action. 2004 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Toronto section) 7 While they paint real people, Werner fabricates from memory, flirting abandonedly with the endless archetypes found in magazines, television and billboards. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1723 |
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