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Definition of Obliviously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obliviously
Literary usage of Obliviously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... die obliviously ; the world has worn itself to old age ; a boundless hope has
passed across the earth, and we must lift our eye* to heaven. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1891)
"The man who in a walk goes neglectfully and obliviously by a million mysteries
and wonders that God has been toiling to eliminate for ages,—such a man ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"... but Blake's attention is caught by this strange surface, and he follows its
suggestions, obliviously elaborating fantastic forms of vegetable growth, ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1896)
"Wilfrid's head was stooped to a level with Emilia's, into whose face he was
looking obliviously, while the hot words sprang from his lips. ..."
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