barrenlyadv.
/ˈbarənli/, /ˈbarn̩li/, U.S. /ˈbɛrənli/ In a barren manner; without offspring, produce, or result; meagrely, scantily.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adverb]
barrenly1546
vastly1594
sterilely1886
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adverb] > scantily or meagrely
feeblyc1290
scarcely1340
scantc1440
scantly1509
daintilya1513
barelya1535
thinly1537
leanly1580
meagrelya1586
starvedly1606
exile1654
scantily1774
skimpingly1853
skimpily1859
stintedly1863
barrenly1877
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giii Though your pasture looke bareynly and dull, Yet loke not on the meate, but loke on the man.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Barrenlye, steriliter.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xi. sig. B3 Let those whom nature hath not made for store..barrenly perrish. View more context for this quotation
1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 472 Yet haue they onely barrenly adorned this temporall life.
1877 J. S. Blackie Wise Men Greece 36 Barrenly increase Mere itch of knowledge.
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