composedly

adv

composedly

adv

US /kəmˈpoʊ.zɪd.li/ · UK /kəmˈpəʊ.zɪd.li/

Etymology From composed + -ly.

1

In a composed manner.

  • So far the letter had run composedly enough; but here, with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
  • "You have this down to a fine art?" I said. "A girl needs to," she said composedly.1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 63:

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