starvedly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From starved +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

starvedly (comparative more starvedly, superlative most starvedly)

  1. In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
    • 1605, Jos[eph] Hall, “Paragraph 24”, in Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall. [], London: [] Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter, →OCLC, 1st book, page 75:
      [S]ecurity and ignorance may ſcatter ſome refuſe morſels of ioy, ſavvced vvith much bitterneſſe: or may be like ſome boaſting houſkeeper, vvhich keepeth open dores for one day vvhich much cheer, and liues ſtaruedly all the yere after.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for starvedly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)