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pausefully

pausefully adverb: in a pauseful manner; with pauses.

Adverb

pausefully (comparative more pausefully, superlative most pausefully)

  1. In a pauseful manner; with pauses.
    • There can be little doubt that in training their students to read pausefully the ancients were assisted by the use of colometrized texts.1936, James Aloysius Kleist, The Gospel of Saint Mark, page 121

Forms of pausefully

comparativemore pausefully
superlativemost pausefully

Origin of pausefully

From pauseful + -ly.

Questions about pausefully

What does pausefully mean?
Pausefully means in a pauseful manner; with pauses.
What part of speech is pausefully?
Pausefully is an adverb.

Words near pausefully in the dictionary

  1. PauseChamp
  2. paused
  3. Pausee
  4. Pausees
  5. pauseful
  6. pausefully
  7. pauseless
  8. pauselessly
  9. pauselessness
  10. pauser
  11. Pauserna

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