irresolutely

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English

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Etymology

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From irresolute +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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irresolutely (comparative more irresolutely, superlative most irresolutely)

  1. In an irresolute or wavering manner.
    • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 93:
      [H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. [] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms.

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