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introvertedly en · ADV

Etymology

From introverted + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an introverted manner.
   • But there was little joy for him in Alfredo’s musicality. The boy – the man now – played introvertedly, for nobody’s pleasure but his own. 2010, Howard Jacobson, chapter 2, in The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, page 60:
   • […] a person would sit within and against the encircling walls, introvertedly sheltered and alone, looking toward the open sea. 1959, Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pages 162–163:
   • Mind is not always in act, either toward the outer world, or, introvertedly, toward its own states. 1857, Isaac Taylor, chapter 15, in The World of Mind, London: Jackson and Walford, page 217:

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