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English
Etymology
From fragmentary + -ly.
Adverb
fragmentarily (comparative more fragmentarily, superlative most fragmentarily)
- In a fragmentary manner.
1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 18, in Aaron’s Rod:So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily.
1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter X, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back.
1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 57:Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.