Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a fugitive manner.

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  • adverb In a fugitive manner.

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  • adverb In a fugitive manner.

Etymologies

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fugitive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The planetoid swung out into realms where meteoroids are fugitively few.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • The planetoid swung out into realms where meteoroids are fugitively few.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Waves ran black before a harrying wind, save where their white manes glimmered fugitively in what light there was.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • These and other disconnected thoughts flitted fugitively through her mind as she sat waiting for Penelope's return.

    The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

  • As Nan replied conventionally to Lady Gertrude's greeting, some such thoughts as these flashed fugitively through her mind, and with them came a rather tender, girlish determination, to make the transition as easy as possible to the elder woman when the time came for it.

    The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

  • She could not put into actual words the thought which flitted fugitively through her mind -- it was too vague and indeterminate.

    The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler

  • She wondered fugitively how the pair were enjoying themselves.

    The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler

  • They hung in the sky above like great pendulous jewels, palpitant with interior name -- there were purple stars, and blue stars, and orange-colored stars; some resembled monstrous amethysts, some emeralds fierily green, some rubies spitting sparks vindictively red; others globular sheeny pearls, creamy of lustre but shot with faint gleams of rose; and fugitively sprinkling the firmament here and there were orbs that glistened like diamonds, wonderfully and purely white.

    The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

  • Men, fearing to remain longer in their huts or homes, fugitively rush with wives and children, they know not whither.

    The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger

  • Without such a mechanical or apparently unspiritual basis these forces can only work fugitively, erratically, and so ineffectively, as they did in the Greek world.

    The Unity of Civilization Various

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