abandonedly

comparative more abandonedly · superlative most abandonedly

1. With abandon, without restraint.

   In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly.

   1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, Part 4, Chapter 1

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   For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 28”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

   Synonyms: unrestrainedly