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Definition of Sottishly
1. Adverb. In a sottish manner.
Definition of Sottishly
1. Adverb. in a sottish manner ¹
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Definition of Sottishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sottishly
Literary usage of Sottishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Northumberland, sottishly mad with over great fortune, procured the king, ...
So sottishly to lose the purest pleasures and comforts of this world, ..."
2. The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester by Jonathan Edwards (1858)
"... God in another world will make them thoroughly to understand many things,
which senseless unawakened sinners are sottishly ignorant of in this world. ..."
3. The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester by Jonathan Edwards (1844)
"... which senseless unawakened sinners are sottishly ignorant of in this world.
Their eyes in many respects shall be thoroughly opened in hell. ..."
4. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (1887)
"And how fewer marriages, when consummated, would continue happy, if the husband
were not either sottishly insensible of, or did not purposely wink at and ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... so sottishly overruled by their wives; and therefore Cato in Plutarch made a
bitter jest on his fellow-citizens, the Romans, " we govern all the world ..."
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