Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a protrusive manner; obtrusively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a protrusive manner.
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- adverb In a
protrusive manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The arrangement loosed the right arm, but was a serious hamper to walking, and made it inconvenient to get out the rapier, the handle of which was protrusively suggested through the cloak.
The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866
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What he actually took up from a little old Twelfth-Street table that piously preserved the plain mahogany circle, with never a curl nor a crook nor a hint of a brazen flourish, what he paused there a moment for commerce with, his back presented to crapy Cornelia, who sat taking that view of him, during this opportunity, very protrusively and frankly and fondly, was one of the wasted mementos just mentioned, over which he both uttered and suppressed a small comprehensive cry.
The Finer Grain Henry James 1879
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