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Definition of Fitfully
1. Adverb. In a fitful manner. "He slept fitfully"
Definition of Fitfully
1. Adverb. In a fitful manner; irregularly or unsteadily. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fitfully
1. fitful [adv] - See also: fitful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fitfully
Literary usage of Fitfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River by Joseph Conrad (1895)
"... while under the unsteady hand of the statesman of Sambir the Trovatore fitfully
wept, wailed, and bade good-bye to his Leonore again and again in a ..."
2. Uncas and Miantonomoh: A Historical Discourse, Delivered at Norwich, (Conn by William Leete Stone (1842)
"... that beamed Through the veil of their midnight shroud ; And the reddening
flashes that fitfully gleamed When the distant fires of the war-dance streamed ..."
3. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1853)
"... glared fitfully from the scaffoldings, or light shot up from the gas mains,
where holes hod been dug to fix in the barriers. ..."
4. Harvey and His Discovery by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1878)
"A streak of sunshine fitfully illuminates a ridge, a puff of wind brings to view
a winding stream; but the mist deepens again, and the outlines fade away in ..."
5. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences, for by New Sydenham Society (1873)
"The chief point in the research is that the gaa is only given off fitfully and
by repeated exhaustions of the receiver. His experiments account for the ..."
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