warfully
advEtymology From warful + -ly.
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In a warful, or warlike, manner.
- Now Bartty's a-galloping most warfully; Sweet John must needs do the same.2002, William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith - Page 82:
- We arrive not-warfully. Is there a Rachel Mansour here?" Well, here goes. She stood up and cleared her throat. "Who wants to know?" The Critic grinned at her, baring frighteningly long tusks: "I am Sister Seventh. You come in time!2004, Charles Stross, Singularity Sky - Page 314:
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- In Ruddick's formulation, men think “warfully,” or, more abstractly, they are given to abstraction (1983b: 249-252). Women think concretely.2012, Nicholas Onuf, World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations - Page 125: