Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With selection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare With care and selection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb By means of
selection ;selectively .
Etymologies
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selected + -ly
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Examples
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Machobullsh*t does not enter into it: instructors are thoughtful and earnest, and students are self-selectedly a mature crowd.
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He would not have selectedly leaked it to a single source, especially this 9-month sort of cub reporter in the Metro section.
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"Afternoon, ser Cerryl!" called the washerwoman who had set her basket on the narrow porch of Esad's-a store of odd items, neither a chandlery nor a miller's market nor a weaver's shop, but a place that held items partaking selectedly of all.
Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999
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