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Definition of Murderously
1. Adverb. As if bent on murder. "The huge dog bore down on them with bared fangs and barking murderously"
2. Adverb. In a murderous frenzy. "Rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones"
Definition of Murderously
1. Adverb. In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Murderously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Murderously
Literary usage of Murderously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select American Cases on the Law of Self-defence by L. B. Horrigan, Seymour Dwight Thompson (1874)
"If a man who is murderously assailed is obliged in all cases to retreat before
killing, there may be no limit to his retreating so long as his enemy shall ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1917)
"... with the retiring counsel said mortal wound, murderously inflicted by the said
Henry Wirz, the said soldier, on the thirtieth day of May, AD 1864, died. ..."
3. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1868)
"... in consequence of which said mortal wound, murderously inflicted by the said
Henry Wirz, the said soldier immediately, to wit, on the day aforesaid, ..."
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