Definitions
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- adverb in an
objurgative orreproving manner
Etymologies
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From objurgative + -ly
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Examples
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The foolish Patient still at intervals continued to break in on our discourse, which rather promised to take a philosophic turn: "But I have lost my appetite," said he, objurgatively, with a tone of irritated pathos; "I have no appetite; I can't eat!"
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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a philosophic turn: "But I have lost my appetite," said he, objurgatively, with a tone of irritated pathos; "I have no appetite; I can't eat!"
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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