shieldedly

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English

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Etymology

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From shielded +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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shieldedly (comparative more shieldedly, superlative most shieldedly)

  1. (rare) In a shielded manner; protectedly
    • 1945 October, J. W. Pelkie, “King of the Dinosaurs”, in Leroy Yerxa, editor, Fantastic Adventures, volume 7, number 4, Chapter XXI, page 52:
      Toka put Roya shieldedly ahead of him. The party started up.
    • 1958 August, James Dickey, “Dover: Believing in Kings”, in Poetry, volume 92, number 5, page 283:
      As we drove down the ramp from the boat / The sun flashed once / Or through hand-shieldedly twice;
    • 2000 July 25, Nomen Nescio, “Conservative or Liberal”, in alt.christnet.theology[1] (Usenet):
      Police condem opponents, readily confuse arbitrary, tentative political law with moral good, and `shieldedly' pursue to suffer others as if they are only loving others.
    • 2007, Rudyard Kipling, “A Rottingdean Funeral: Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, June 1898”, in David Arscott, compiler, A Sussex Kipling: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, Pomegranate Press, page 18:
      He might have been struck down in public - at a theatre or dining out somewhere; instead of in his own place, quietly and shieldedly.