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Etymology

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irreptitious +‎ -ly

Adverb

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irreptitiously (comparative more irreptitiously, superlative most irreptitiously)

  1. In an irreptitious manner.
    • 1972, Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan, page 255:
      A quadrant is a curvilinear angle traversing round and at an equal distance from a given point, called a centre, no two points in the curve being at the same angle, but irreptitiously graduating from 90 to 60.