alarmedly
advEtymology From alarmed + -ly.
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In an alarmed manner.
- At first the ravenous animals were startled and terrified at the change—at the cessation of movement. They shrank alarmedly back […]1842, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, in Eliza Leslie, editor, The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present, Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, page 147:
- Now I thought I had said something calculated to make Bessie turn pale and gasp, but I could scarcely believe it when I looked up, expecting to find her almost fainting, and saw her pensively, but by no means alarmedly, shaking her head. "1872, John Hay et al., Not Pretty, But Precious:
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- The Law and Order Party was being organized out of various elements that viewed alarmedly the Vigilantes' growing power.1922, Louis John Stellman, Port O' Gold: