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manlessly

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From manless + -ly.

  1. Inhumanly.

    [L]et her vvounds / Manleſly digd in her, be eaſd and cur'd / VVith balme of thine ovvne teares: […]

    Thus furie-like ſhe [Andromache] vvent, / Tvvo vvomen (as ſhe vvill'd) at hand; and made her quicke aſcent / Vp to the tovvre, and preaſſe of men; her ſpirit in vprore. Round / She caſt her greedy eye, and ſavv, her Hector ſlaine, and bound / T' Achilles chariot; manleſly, dragg'd to the Grecian fleet.