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English
Etymology
From starved + -ly.
Adverb
starvedly (comparative more starvedly, superlative most starvedly)
- In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
1605, Jos Hall, “Paragraph 24”, in Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall. , London: Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter, →OCLC, 1st book, page 75:ecurity and ignorance may ſcatter ſome refuſe morſels of ioy, ſavvced vvith much bitterneſſe: or may be like ſome boaſting houſkeeper, vvhich keepeth open dores for one day vvhich much cheer, and liues ſtaruedly all the yere after.
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