irresolutely
English
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From irresolute + -ly.
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Adverb
[edit]irresolutely (comparative more irresolutely, superlative most irresolutely)
- In an irresolute or wavering manner.
- 1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 93:
- [H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms.
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[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “irresolutely”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.