starvedly

adv

starvedly

adv

Etymology From starved + -ly.

1

In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.

  • [S]ecurity and ignorance may ſcatter ſome refuſe morſels of ioy, ſavvced vvith much bitterneſſe: or may be like ſome boaſting houſkeeper, vvhich keepeth open dores for one day vvhich much cheer, and liues ſtaruedly all the yere after.1605, Jos[eph] Hall, “Paragraph 24”, in Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall. […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter, →OCLC, 1st book, page 75:

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