starvedly

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adverb

In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.

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Meanings

adverbstarvedly (comparative more starvedly, superlative most starvedly)

comparative more starvedly · superlative most starvedly

  1. In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.

    [S]ecurity and ignorance may ſcatter ſome refuſe morſels of ioy, ſavvced vvith much bitterneſſe: or may be like ſome boaſting houſkeeper, vvhich keepeth open dores for one day vvhich much cheer, and liues ſtaruedly all the yere after.

    1605, Jos[eph] Hall, “Paragraph 24”, in Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall. […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter, →OCLC, 1st book, page 75

Origin

From starved + -ly.

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