starvedly

English

Etymology

From starved +‎ -ly.

Adverb

starvedly (comparative more starvedly, superlative most starvedly)

  1. In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
    • 1605, Jos[eph] Hall, “Paragraph 24”, in Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall. […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter, →OCLC, 1st book, page 75:
      [S]ecurity and ignorance may ſcatter ſome refuſe morſels of ioy, ſavvced vvith much bitterneſſe: or may be like ſome boaſting houſkeeper, vvhich keepeth open dores for one day vvhich much cheer, and liues ſtaruedly all the yere after.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Henry to this entry?)

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