Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a changeful manner.

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  • adverb In a changeful manner.

Etymologies

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changeful +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Repeat – ad infinitum, hopefully (and changefully).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball 2010

  • Thus I lightly shift my body into diverse phases, and am beheld in varying wise; for changefully now cramped stiffness draws in my limbs, now the virtue of my tall body unfolds them, and suffers them to touch the cloud-tops.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • Her dress, that was the colour of a dove's wing, shimmered changefully as she moved, and her aquamarine pendant gleamed like drops of sea water on its silver chain.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

  • Battles and conquests, defeats and victories pass over the national mind as rapidly and changefully as the clouds are flying over the sky to-night!

    Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889

  • The child of Tumult has been living amply and changefully through such a year -- his eighth.

    Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

  • Heavily heaped up, changefully changeless, void though of danger

    Studies in Song Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • A torch or two, each stuck in an iron ring against the wall, changefully lit up the scene.

    The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • From the shadowy past we drive into the world of human things, for ever changefully unchanged, unrestfully the same.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • From the shadowy past we drive into the world of human things, for ever changefully unchanged, unrestfully the same.

    New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

  • From the shadowy past we drive into the world of human things, for ever changefully unchanged, unrestfully the same.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

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