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Definition of Torpidly
1. Adverb. In a daze; in a dazed manner. "He wondered dazedly whether the term after next at his new school wouldn't matter so much"
Definition of Torpidly
1. adv. In a torpid manner.
Definition of Torpidly
1. Adverb. In a torpid way or manner. ¹
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Definition of Torpidly
1. in a sluggish manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torpidly
Literary usage of Torpidly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Montessori Method by Maria Montessori (1912)
"the attention of the child will in all probability remain torpidly fixed upon
the examples suggested by her. We may liken the child to a clock, ..."
2. The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Anne E. George, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"of this ribbon %" the attention of the child will in all probability remain
torpidly fixed upon the examples suggested by her. We may liken the child to a ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... because the water becomes so hot and full of fermentation and seek cool spots
under rocks, and the like, where they sleep torpidly until autumn. ..."
4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"Some few yet stood around Gherardi there, Friends and relations of the dead,—and
he, KS A loveless man, accepted torpidly The consolation that he wanted not ..."
5. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1883)
"... cowers beneath the fury of the storm, crawls from the cold into his den, and
there quasi-torpidly remains until nature releases him. ..."
6. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... as they spread themselves freely over the land,—not roving about like the
nomad populations, nor torpidly vegetating like those of the river districts. ..."
7. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1857)
"... as they spread themselves freely over the land,—not roving about like the
nomad populations, nor torpidly vegetating like those of the river districts. ..."
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