Meanings
adverbcacoethically (comparative more cacoethically, superlative most cacoethically)
comparative more cacoethically · superlative most cacoethically
- In a cacoethic (or cacoethical) manner.
[…] or it might be extenuated cacoethically, as though a new crop of fancies were sprung up already, an after-math rank and wild, before the gladdening shower of commendation has yet freshened-up my brown hay-field; […]
1841, “Appendix. An Afterthought.”, in M[artin] F[arquhar] Tupper, editor, An Author's Mind: The Book of Title-pages, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, pages 276–277
Origin
From cacoethic + -ally or cacoethical + -ly.
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