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Definition: DIREPTITIOUSLY

Part of Speech Definition
Adverb 1. With plundering violence; by violent injustice.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective direptitious.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective Form
(direptitious)
1. Characterized by direption.[Websters].
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb direptitiously.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Direptitiously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Direptitiously \Di*rep*ti"tious*ly\, adverb. With plundering violence; by violent injustice.. (references)

Definition: DIREPTITIOUSLY

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adverb1. With plundering violence; by violent injustice.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective direptitious.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective Form
(direptitious)
1. Characterized by direption.[Websters].
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb direptitiously.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "DIREPTITIOUSLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Direptitiously \Di*rep*ti"tious*ly\, adverb. With plundering violence; by violent injustice.. (references)