Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • By constraint; by compulsion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner.

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  • adverb in a constrained manner, showing constraint

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  • adverb in a constrained manner

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Examples

  • With an abashed kind of idea that it might have already joined himself to something he had never seen, he said constrainedly: “Just so.”

    Mugby Junction 2007

  • Again the metaphysical fine detail is less important that the fact that we get by most of the time with constrainedly inexact similarity.

    Stanisław Leśniewski Simons, Peter 2007

  • With an abashed kind of idea that it might have already joined himself to something he had never seen, he said constrainedly: “Just so.”

    Mugby Junction 2007

  • ‘Mrs. Barnet was very well when I left home,’ the other answered constrainedly, exchanging his meditative regard of the horse for one of self-consciousness.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • ‘Yes — it is he,’ said Selina constrainedly advancing.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • They stood close together, leaning over the rustic balustrading which bounded the arbour on the outward side, and formed the crest of a steep slope beneath Elfride constrainedly pointed out some features of the distant uplands rising irregularly opposite.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • He lifted her upon the horse, and they went along constrainedly.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • "Oh, no! Why should I be angry?" she laughed constrainedly.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Language: a matter of no meane comfort to her, who constrainedly had lived divers yeeres together, in the state of a deafe or dumbe

    The Decameron 2004

  • Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it.

    The Decameron 2004

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