disconnectedly
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From disconnected + -ly.
AdverbEdit
disconnectedly (comparative more disconnectedly, superlative most disconnectedly)
- In a disconnected manner.
- 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger: Translated from the Norwegian, London: Leonard Smithers and Co. […], OCLC 560168646; republished New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, October 1920 (December 1920 printing), OCLC 189563, page 113:
- Life stirs again in all my fibres, and time after time I repeat disconnectedly, "The green blanket—the green blanket."
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TranslationsEdit
in a disconnected manner
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