Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a Protean manner; with assumption of different shapes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a protean manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
protean manner.
Etymologies
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protean + -ly
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Examples
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It was as many as it chose to be, freely awakened and freely set aside, proteanly intermingling and separating again, using whatever bodies and sensors it wished for as long as it wished, immortally experiencing, creating, meditating, seeking a fulfillment that the search itself brought forth.
Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000
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The theory was that if such a male were ever needed in a hurry, he would be most likely to be needed for that sort of task -- or, at the least, that that was the best one could do toward training him to be proteanly useful.
And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960
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