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abandonedly

adverb

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Pronunciation: /əˈbæn.dn̩.əd.li/

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English abandoned Middle English -ly English -ly English abandonedly From abandoned + -ly.

  1. With abandon, without restraint.

    For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.

    In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly.