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manlessly

manlessly adverb: inhumanly.

Adverb

manlessly (comparative more manlessly, superlative most manlessly)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Inhumanly.
    • [L]et her vvounds / Manleſly digd in her, be eaſd and cur'd / VVith balme of thine ovvne teares: […]1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, page 68
    • 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...[1611?], Homer, “The XXII. Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 307

Forms of manlessly

comparativemore manlessly
superlativemost manlessly

Origin of manlessly

From manless + -ly.

Questions about manlessly

What does manlessly mean?
Manlessly means inhumanly.
What part of speech is manlessly?
Manlessly is an adverb.

Words near manlessly in the dictionary

  1. manky
  2. manky mallard
  3. manky mallards
  4. Manlayag
  5. manless
  6. manlessly
  7. manlessness
  8. manlet
  9. manlets
  10. Manley
  11. Manleys

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