starvedly

English

Etymology

From starved +‎ -ly.

Adverb

starvedly (comparative more starvedly, superlative most starvedly)

  1. In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
    • 1606, Jos[eph] Hall, “Meditations and Vowes, Divine and Morall; […]. A Third Century. Paragraph 24.”, in A Recollection of Such Treatises as Haue Bene heretofore Seuerally Published and are Nowe Reuised, Corrected, Augmented. […], London: […] [Humfrey Lownes] for Arthur Iohnson, Samuel Macham and Laurence Lisle, published 1615, →OCLC, 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “starvedly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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