absorbedly
English
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]absorbedly (comparative more absorbedly, superlative most absorbedly)
- In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
- 1841, R. B. Peake, “The Bequeathed Heart”, in The New Monthly Magazine[1], Volume 62, 1841 part 2, p. 36:
- Michael O’Shea continued absorbedly gazing on the picture, till the welcome smell of a tumbler of Mr. Hoolagan’s whisky suddenly restored him to comparative serenity.
- 1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself[2], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, pages 65–66:
- Fanny, red-cheeked and bright-eyed from her recent mental struggles, listened interestedly, then intently, then absorbedly.
- 1943, Mary Norton, chapter 8, in The Magic Bed-Knob[3], New York: Hyperion:
- Carey could see her expression. It was the face of one who was deeply and absorbedly interested.
- 2010, Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question[4], New York: Bloomsbury, Part One, Chapter Four, I, p. 86:
- Treslove was no Finkler. He could not lose his heart to more than one woman at a time. He loved too absorbedly for that. But he always knew when he was about to be thrown over and was quick to make provision, where he could, to love absorbedly again.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absorbedly”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.