adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a constrained manner.

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  1.  Under constraint or compulsion.

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1549.  Cheke, Hurt Sedit. (1641), 52. That yee refuse to doe willingly, think yee must be drawne to doe the same constrainedly.

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1678.  Yng. Man’s Call., 326. Never having attired her self in regal ornaments, but constrainedly and with tears.

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1837.  G. Redford, Script. Verif., vii. 459. Facts which they most reluctantly and constrainedly attest.

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  2.  With constrained manner or behavior; without natural spontaneity or freedom of manner.

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1654.  Earl Orrery, Parthenissa (1676), 637. I forced my self to divert those two persons … which yet I did so constrainedly, that I gave them more cause of pity, than satisfaction.

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1865.  Cornh. Mag., Nov., 579. ‘Before I answer your question,’ said Midwinter a little constrainedly, ‘I want to ask you something.’

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