Definition of Jejunely

1. Adverb. In an immature manner. "His teenage son still behaves very immaturely"

Exact synonyms: Immaturely
Partainyms: Immature, Jejune
Antonyms: Maturely

Definition of Jejunely

1. Adverb. In a jejune manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jejunely

1. jejune [adv] - See also: jejune

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jejunely

jehadism
jehadist
jehadists
jehads
jehu
jehus
jejeunostomy
jejeunum
jejuna
jejunal
jejunal and ileal veins
jejunal arteries
jejunal artery
jejune
jejunectomy
jejunely (current term)
jejuneness
jejunenesses
jejunities
jejunitis
jejunity
jejuno-
jejunocolostomy
jejunogastric
jejunoileal
jejunoileal shunt
jejunoileites
jejunoileitis

Literary usage of Jejunely

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

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"The editors either ignore the- word, or jejunely refer to I. i. 251, which, has nothing to do with the matter. I believe that the particle is to be ex- AE ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"Characterized with reference to their philosophic tendencies, Locke is the serious, or, rather, the jejunely sober, inquirer; Berkeley, the philosophic seer ..."

3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"THE JEWS EXPOUND THESE SIGNS jejunely AND FEEBLY, AND TAKE UP THEIR ATTENTION ONLY WITH INSIGNIFICANT MATTERS. " But you, expounding these things in a low ..."

4. The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney (1890)
"50: "For we see that some have reasoned on the same subjects jejunely and dryly, as Chrysippus, whom they celebrate as the acutest of philosophers; ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1759)
"... and even the leaft nick that chafed a found ; and I have often thought, that had I lived in the days of old, when the tools of talk were but jejunely ..."

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