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Webster 1913 Edition
Brokenly
Bro′ken-ly
,adv.
In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.
The pagans worship God . . . as it were
brokenly
and by piecemeal. Cudworth.
Webster 1828 Edition
Brokenly
BRO'KENLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
brokenly
brokenly
English
Adverb
brokenly (comparative more brokenly, superlative most brokenly)
- In a broken manner.
- (of speech) With spaces between words, especially due to emotion.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XVI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- Upon which, you slink out, bathed in shame and confusion, and Upjohn thanks me brokenly and says if there is anything he can do for me, I have only to name it.
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