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Definition of Brokenly
1. adv. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.
Definition of Brokenly
1. Adverb. In a broken manner. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: of speech) With spaces between words, especially due to emotion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brokenly
1. broken [adv] - See also: broken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brokenly
Literary usage of Brokenly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1870)
"Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1870. 2 vols. 8vo., pp. 604—550. New York : Charles
Scribner & Co. f Aspects of Humanity, brokenly mirrored in the ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1870)
"New York: Charles Scribner <fe Co. f Aspects of Humanity, brokenly mirrored in
the over-swelling Current of Hu- man Speech. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott <fe ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... but as it were brokenly, and by piece-meals, as he is severally manifested in
all the things of nature, and the parts of the world, ..."