shieldedly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]shieldedly (comparative more shieldedly, superlative most shieldedly)
- (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.
- 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.