introvertedly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From introverted + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]introvertedly (comparative more introvertedly, superlative most introvertedly)
- In an introverted manner.
- 1857, Isaac Taylor, chapter 15, in The World of Mind[1], London: Jackson and Walford, page 217:
- Mind is not always in act, either toward the outer world, or, introvertedly, toward its own states.
- 1959, Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale[2], Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pages 162–163:
- […] a person would sit within and against the encircling walls, introvertedly sheltered and alone, looking toward the open sea.
- 2010, Howard Jacobson, chapter 2, in The Finkler Question[3], New York: Bloomsbury, page 60:
- But there was little joy for him in Alfredo’s musicality. The boy – the man now – played introvertedly, for nobody’s pleasure but his own.