shieldedly

comparative more shieldedly · superlative most shieldedly

1. rareIn a shielded manner; protectedly

   Toka put Roya shieldedly ahead of him. The party started up.

   1945 October, J. W. Pelkie, “King of the Dinosaurs”, in Leroy Yerxa, editor, Fantastic Adventures, volume 7, number 4, Chapter XXI, page 52

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   As we drove down the ramp from the boat / The sun flashed once / Or through hand-shieldedly twice;

   1958 August, James Dickey, “Dover: Believing in Kings”, in Poetry, volume 92, number 5, page 283

   Police condem opponents, readily confuse arbitrary, tentative political law with moral good, and `shieldedly' pursue to suffer others as if they are only loving others.

   2000 July 25, Nomen Nescio, “Conservative or Liberal”, in alt.christnet.theology (Usenet)

   He might have been struck down in public - at a theatre or dining out somewhere; instead of in his own place, quietly and shieldedly.

   2007, Rudyard Kipling, “A Rottingdean Funeral: Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, June 1898”, in David Arscott, compiler, A Sussex Kipling: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, Pomegranate Press, page 18