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Definition of Detachedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detachedly
Literary usage of Detachedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Journal by National Council of Teachers of English (1919)
"Untrained minds work very detachedly in considering non-narrative material.
They have a way of selecting as its main feature the concrete examples that ..."
2. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1914)
"Now came this rare, unexpected interlude and I could look detachedly upon what
I was doing and feel something of its infinite wonderfulness. ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Speaking calmly, detachedly. but not cynically, it is a phase. During its existence
it is the blood in the veins, the sight of the eyes, the beat of the ..."
4. Marriage by Herbert George Wells (1912)
"... him in the daytime, but only in those intercalary and detachedly critical
periods of thought—why exactly had she engaged herself to Magnet? Why had she? ..."
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