adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In an abandoned manner; unrestrainedly, profligately, shamelessly.

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1714.  B. Mandeville, The Bees (1725), I. 65. The more he wallows in lust and strains every faculty to be abandondly voluptuous.

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1788.  Burke, Sp. agt. Warren Hastings, Wks. XIII. 301. If there had been one more desperately and abandonedly corrupt … to be found in India.

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  2.  In abandon (sb.3), free from conventional restraint. rare.

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1855.  Thoreau, Letters (1865), 126. True, it is well to live abandonedly from time to time.

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