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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a contracted manner; with contraction.

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  • adverb In a contracted manner.

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Examples

  • It is not necessary, even in the cold atmosphere of this world, to become contractedly selfish; cold expands noble natures as it does water ....

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • _Chez_ is nowhere used; but in the southern part _utche_ or _iche_, is sometimes spoken contractedly _che_.

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • On that Sunday night he had wandered wild, incoherently ranging and throbbing, but this became the law of his next days as well, since he lacked more than ever all other resort or refuge and had nowhere to carry, to deposit, or contractedly let loose and lock up, as it were, his swollen consciousness, which fairly split in twain the raw shell of his sordid little boarding-place.

    The Finer Grain Henry James 1879

  • His great desire was to learn to read, but it was not encouraged by the hermit, nor was there any book available save the portuary, crookedly and contractedly written on vellum, so as to be illegible to anyone unfamiliar with writing, with Latin, or the service.

    The Herd Boy and His Hermit Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Scriblerus has omitted to advertise the reader, at the opening of this poem, that Dulness here is not to be taken contractedly for mere stupidity, but in the enlarged sense of the word, for all slowness of apprehension, shortness of sight, or imperfect sense of things.

    The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716

  • The lines, of which I desired a copy, contain an exemplification of the use of _utchy_ or _ichè_, used contractedly [see

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • Latin, "_saltu't_" may have been contractedly written for _saltuatim_. "

    Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 Various

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