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Definition of Abruptly

1. Adverb. Quickly and without warning. "He stopped suddenly"

Definition of Abruptly

1. adv. In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.

Definition of Abruptly

1. Adverb. In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abruptly

1. abrupt [adv] - See also: abrupt

Medical Definition of Abruptly

1. 1. In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly. 2. Precipitously. Abruptly pinnate, pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Abruptly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Three days later, Delphine rushed abruptly into the room where her mistress sat. "Madame! madame! there's a man here with a pot of paste who has given me a ..."

2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"X. DOUGLASII, Watson, found in the mountains from the Columbia to Montana, is a similar cordate-ovate, 2 lines long, the very abruptly acute cells usually ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Lvs. obovate or obovate-lanceolate, abruptly petioled, acute or mucronate «t the apex : fls. in ... Shrub : Ivs. broad-ovate or elliptic, usually abruptly ..."

4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... though also receding from, keeps much nearer, the river. This lower range of hills terminates abruptly with Marye's Hill, immediately in rear of the ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"About a mile above Fredericksburg, at Dr. John R. Taylor's residence, the land rises abruptly from the river w (treat elevation to the upper heights. ..."

6. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Leaves broadly linear, elongated, obtuse (4-27 шт. wide); raceme simple; capsule abruptly 3-horned. seeds oblong with a fleshy red coat. ..."

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