irresolutely

English

Etymology

From irresolute +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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.

Further reading

• “irresolutely”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.