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  • adverb In a jaunting manner.

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jaunting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • A more nor usually sober cardriver, who was jauntingly hosing his runabout,

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • She had a profusion of iron rings on her ankles, to which were attached little pieces of sheet iron, to enable her to make a tinkling as she walked in her mincing African style; the same thing is thought pretty by our own dragoons in walking jauntingly.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

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