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Definition of Depressively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depressively
Literary usage of Depressively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... is depressively emotional.—General paralysis shows decrease in memory with
increasing incoherence, and relative preservation of the emotional life, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... this was resided against him and his party, he must leave the Protestant
immunity and adopt the Roman Candlestick Greed : " Which," I said depressively. ..."
3. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"But the two days following James's safe arrival by the coach I was so depressively
unwell, so unremittingly restless, etc., and so exhausted by a teasing ..."
4. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1895)
"But the two days following James's safe arrival by the coach I was so depressively
unwell, so unremittingly restless, etc., and so exhausted by a teasing ..."
5. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"The patients become depressively suspicious and reserved. They express notions
of persecution and believe they have been robbed or poisoned and that their ..."
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