Definition of Adultly

1. Adverb. In an adult manner, not childishly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adultly

1. in a manner typical of an adult [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adultly

adultescent
adultescents
adulthood
adulthoods
adulticidal
adulticide
adulticides
adultism
adultization
adultize
adultized
adultizes
adultizing
adultlike
adultly (current term)
adultness
adultnesses
adultomorphism
adultress
adultresses
adultry
adults
adumbral
adumbrate
adumbrated
adumbrates
adumbrating
adumbration
adumbrations

Literary usage of Adultly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Power of Thought: What it is and what it Does by John Douglas Sterrett (1896)
"Here we found on a more varied experience, and regard everything with an interest more adultly personal and responsible. We have reached the point where we ..."

2. The Letters of Cassiodorus: Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae by Cassiodorus, Thomas Hodgkin (1886)
"... shall be punished by confiscation of half his property; or, if a poor man, by banishment. 'V. adultly. All the statutes of the late King ..."

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