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Definition of Stressfully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stressfully
Literary usage of Stressfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1917)
"17 [uttered stressfully.] Oh I'm so dizzy. Why don't some of these big ones I hear
... Prelates, dignitaries [uttered stressfully.] Oh such music! Oh yes. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1902)
"He preached, and laboured stressfully to put into practice, his conviction that
great art is 'scientific and impersonal.' But, on the one hand, ..."
3. Little Theater Classics by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1920)
"The Loathed Lover is stressfully masculine in spirit and appeal. The natural man
feels pleasure when an unattractive specimen of his sex wins an ideal woman ..."
4. Directing Study: Educating for Mastery Through Creative Thinking by Harry Lloyd Miller (1922)
"If the student is not on the road to recovery, a fresh analysis of the case may
call stressfully for a modification of the treatment. ..."
5. Directing Study: Educating for Mastery Through Creative Thinking by Harry Lloyd Miller (1922)
"If the student is not on the road to recovery, a fresh analysis of the case may
call stressfully for a modification of the treatment. ..."
6. A Biography of William Shakespeare: Set Forth as His Life Drama by Denton Jaques Snider (1922)
"... of Errors has her tongue sharpened to the keenest edge by her jealousy, with
which so many of Shakespeare's women are touched more or less stressfully. ..."
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