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stony-heartedly

stony-heartedly adverb: in a stonyhearted manner; pitilessly.

Adverb

stony-heartedly (comparative more stony-heartedly, superlative most stony-heartedly)

  1. In a stonyhearted manner; pitilessly.
    • ...their women refused to let their newly-born daughters have access to their milk, and do put them in any way to death: but this practice is not general through all the subdivisions of their tribe, though in several places they do thus stony-heartedly kill them.1811, Edward Moor, Hindu infanticide: An account of the measures adopted for suppressing the practice of the systematic murder by their parents of female infants, page 17

Forms of stony-heartedly

comparativemore stony-heartedly
superlativemost stony-heartedly

Origin of stony-heartedly

From stony-hearted + -ly.

Questions about stony-heartedly

What does stony-heartedly mean?
Stony-heartedly means in a stonyhearted manner; pitilessly.
What part of speech is stony-heartedly?
Stony-heartedly is an adverb.

Words near stony-heartedly in the dictionary

  1. Stony Rise
  2. Stony Stratford
  3. stony-broke
  4. stony-faced
  5. stony-hearted
  6. stony-heartedly
  7. stony-heartedness
  8. stony-iron
  9. Stonycreek
  10. Stonyford
  11. stonyhearted

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