compellably
English
editEtymology
editFrom compellable + -ly.
Adverb
editcompellably (not comparable)
- By compulsion; in a compellable way.
- 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
- with maternal sanction compellably empanelled at quarter sessions
References
edit- “compellably”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.