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brokenly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English broken Middle English -ly English -ly English brokenly From broken + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a broken manner.
   • It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly. 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 125:
   • —Something I said, But faint and brokenly of former days, When in the paths of science and of hope, We walk'd, twin-hearted.—Then there came a peal Of vacant laughter from those bloated lips, And the swoll'n hand with trembling haste was stretch'd For friendship's grasp. 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Intemperence, page 155:
2. (qualifier:Of speech) with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly.
   • Upon which, you slink out, bathed in shame and confusion, and Upjohn thanks me brokenly and says if there is anything he can do for me, I have only to name it. 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
   • It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly. 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 83:

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Translations (1)

eo rompite (in a broken manner)