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Webster 1913 Edition


Consumedly

Con-sum′ed-ly

(kŏn-sūm′ĕd-ly̆)
,
adv.
Excessively.
[Low]
He’s so
consumedly
proud of it.
Thackeray.

Definition 2024


consumedly

consumedly

English

Adverb

consumedly (comparative more consumedly, superlative most consumedly)

  1. In a way that entirely consumes one
    • 1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860:
      They give every token of hating their neighbors consumedly; argal, they are going to be madly enamored of them.
    • 1913, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints:
      The men took it as a huge joke, and at every pause laughed consumedly.
    • 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:
      And so, we are proud--yes! we are consumedly proud, and we know that we have earned the right to be proud.
  2. deucedly; extremely
    • 1900, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Red Axe:
      These border rascals are apt to be restless in the dark hours, and their knives prick most consumedly sharp!