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English
Etymology
From manless + -ly.
Adverb
manlessly (comparative more manlessly, superlative most manlessly)
- (obsolete, rare) Inhumanly.
, Homer, “The XXII. Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 307:Thus furie-like ſhe [Andromache] vvent, / Tvvo vvomen (as ſhe vvill'd) at hand; and made her quicke aſcent / Vp to the tovvre, and preaſſe of men; her ſpirit in vprore. Round / She caſt her greedy eye, and ſavv, her Hector ſlaine, and bound / T' Achilles chariot; manleſly, dragg'd to the Grecian fleet.
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