Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a jejune, empty, dry, or barren manner.
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- adverb In a
jejune manner.
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- adverb in an immature manner
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Examples
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-- The Jews expound these signs jejunely and feebly, and take up their attention only with insignificant matters.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Except for a jejunely described run with hounds, a statement that Corinthian Tom had a set-to with John Jackson, the ex-champion pugilist of England, at his rooms in Bond street, and some praise from Tom’s friends for his “superior style” and “coolness and skill” in a fencing bout with O’shaunessy, there is not a word of true sport in the book.
Jemmy Catnach: proto-comic publisher Steve 2009
missanthropist commented on the word jejunely
Hungrily; from Latin jejunus which meant 'fasting'.
Jejuneness: poverty, barrenness, particularly want of interesting matter.
Rev. John Boag, Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
July 12, 2008