contrastedly

comparative more contrastedly · superlative most contrastedly

1. In contrast.

   Mr. Woodberry very contrastedly is rich in polysyllabic pomp and rapidity—[…]

   1922, Felix E[manuel] Schelling, Appraisements and Asperities as to Some Contemporary Writers, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 99

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   The Lake of Lugano has been most exquisitely described as possessing beauties, which at any time would be delightful, but are more contrastedly so after quitting the higher Alps, as they seem to open views of a new world.

   1810, Francis L. Clarke, Letters on Picturesque and Moral Geography; Illustrative of Landscape and Manners in the Various Countries of Europe. […], London: […] Charles Law; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; […], page 151

   If you quit the city, and traverse the vicinity; or, more contrastedly, if you cross over towards the loadstone-veins of the Texas, or down towards the lagoons of the Floridas; you will meet many wonders of the tree-kind; and I doubt not, that you would gladly leave the dust of the city, to stroll on the green grass, under the green trees.

   1824, Arthur Singleton [pseudonym; Henry Cogswell Knight], Letters from the South and West, Boston: […] Richardson and Lord. J. H. A. Frost, […], page 131

   For they serve to exhibit contrastedly the two divers aspects of the movement of the sixteenth century.

   1863, William Lincoln, The Javelin of Phinehas, page 263

   […] the hind tibiæ more luteous than in T. cordiger, but with the apical sixth more contrastedly black; […]

   1909, G[eorge] H[enry] Verrall, Stratiomyidæ and Succeeding Families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain, London: […] Gurney & Jackson, […], page 411

   Its most conspicuous features are its very contrastedly bicolored leaves, these being green and somewhat velvety above and white with a floccose tomentum beneath.

   1930, Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, page 37